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Excerpt from The Place Names of Fife and Kinross
The following work has two objects in View. The first is to enable the general reader to acquire a knowledge of the significance of the names of places around him-names he is daily using. A greater interest is popularly taken in this subject than is apt to be supposed, and excellent proof of this is afforded by the existence of the strange corruptions which place names are wont to assume by reason of the effort on the part of people to give some meaning to words otherwise unintelligible to them. The other object of the book is to place the results of the writer's research at the disposal of students of the same subject, or of those sciences, such as history, to which it may be auxiliary.
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