Screenshot of OS 1st ed map of Muckle Skerry. Names include Tenniscourt, Parliament Square, The Kettle
Muckle Skerry has some cracking names
05.03.2026 14:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of OS 1st ed map of Muckle Skerry. Names include Tenniscourt, Parliament Square, The Kettle
Muckle Skerry has some cracking names
05.03.2026 14:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Made a bookmarks site with a link to the search page. Productivity's going to go through the roof
dgplacenames.github.io/bookmarks/
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04.03.2026 21:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social
04.03.2026 07:33 — 👍 935 🔁 274 💬 5 📌 2
Completely new to me. Don't know how it's escaped me all these years
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strine
Rousay
04.03.2026 16:47 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A battered paperback book cover, spread out to show front, back, and spine. The book title is A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS, by David Lindsay. A puff quote reads, “One of the most brilliant flights of pure fantasy ever recorded” – London Times. The cover shows a dark purple-black cliff-face. In front of it, from the back to the front cover, a slender dragonish creature coils. It has multiple green wings, and is covered in multi-hued scales: blue and blue-green on top, and yellow and orange beneath. Two slim, androgynous figures are mounted on the dragon's back. Both are dressed in loose robes. The leading figure sits upright, holding reins and directing the dragon; they are wearing a large, flowing red headdress. The figure behind is darker, with their arms wrapped around the leading figure's chest, and their head resting on the other's shoulder.
“I can’t begin to convey to you the power of Lindsay’s vision; I found it overwhelming when I first read the book, thirty years ago, & I’ve seldom seen its equal outside Blake”
—Philip Pullman
David Lindsay (1876–1945), born #OTD, 3 March: author of A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS & other #weird works
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Still not been up. Can you see Hoy from the cairn?
03.03.2026 09:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
18th century Icelandic manuscript illustrations? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland...
02.03.2026 23:15 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The old Canmore site let you full screen the map, which was very useful. No such luck on Trove. I got it to about 3/4 full screen pasting some js into the console but it's not ideal having to rely on that.
@tagishsimon.bsky.social another one for the feedback file, if you don't already have it
It's ace. Obviously very excited for the names being added
01.03.2026 20:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, it's fantastic isn't it
01.03.2026 20:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stitchers have been hard at work
01.03.2026 20:02 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Map showing 40,001 entries on our map.
We've hit FORTY-THOUSAND entries on openbenches.org 🥰
All contributed by people like you.
Thank you to all our wonderful supporters, brilliant photographers, and open source coders.
Interesting on both counts!
01.03.2026 13:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I was going to say that I would suspect 'black' and see that further down your thread that's what Marwick has
I'm really interested in what are (perhaps slightly disparagingly) called folk etymologies so it's valuable in that respect. I don't see that meaning of swart in the SND. Is it one you know?
Collected a few wee, triangular shaped fields called gushet from 19th c estate maps in Dumfriesshire
dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/gu...
Map showing four 'Manitoba' field names in South Ronaldsay, Orkney: 1st Field of Manitoba; 2nd Field of Manitoba; Manitoba - Field with the Water Supply in it; and Old Silage Field - Manitoba.
New Fields of Time post
Distant Horizons: California, Siberia and Manitoba
fieldsoftime.cmackenzie.net/news/2026-03...
It's on FB too: www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
I ken, a scunner
28.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We'll be boycotting the World Cup, aye?
28.02.2026 10:18 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
A map showing Scottish place-names containing the string 'green'. Data from the GB1900 gazetteer
'Green' in Scottish Place-Names
Delaunay triangulation, coloured by area
Alas the truth is probably a bit less exciting....John Mainland died on 20 February. This is likely to be the stonemason's equivalent of a typo🤦♀️
27.02.2026 16:27 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Lower Cara and the Crimean War
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Lower Cara and the Crimean War
www.facebook.com/permalink.ph...
I say database, it's a json file
25.02.2026 20:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0*solemnly enters another Big Field into my field-names datsbase*
25.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"You wont find runes as interesting when you realise most inscriptions are thoroughly mundane or post conversion!"
me looking at a comb that says comb:
Cannot get over how hard it is to navigate to the OSNB search page on Scotland's People. It's like Kafka for toponymists
25.02.2026 16:22 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1