Abstract

After 25 Years of Onomastic Study

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  • ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARYof the founding of the American Name Society it seems appropriate to give a survey of onomastic study in the United States and Canada during the last quarter of a century

  • The Society was formed on December 29, 1951 in Detroit at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association with which it has met annually ever since

  • Cassidy of the University of Wisconsin. This Committee continued until December, 1972, when the Executive Council of ADS voted to discontinue its research committee on placenames in light of the unusual growth in number of members in ANS and the amount of onomastic research that had been done during the years

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ON THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARYof the founding of the American Name Society it seems appropriate to give a survey of onomastic study in the United States and Canada during the last quarter of a century. The first president of ANS, would serve as a secon4 member of the International Committee of Onomastic Sciences, representing the United States.

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