Submitted by huu on Fri, 04/03/2011 - 12:25
The ICOS Treasurer, Katharina Leibring, wants to inform you that it is now subscription time for ICOS members. The membership fee for 2011 is 20 euros. For anyone showing evidence of current doctoral student status the membership fee is 10 euros.
The ICOS Board wants to draw your attention to the fact that nominators and nominees for the next Board of Directors (2011–2014) must be paid-up members of ICOS by March 31, 2011. All candidates must be nominated by two ICOS members.
Submitted by huu on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 12:22
The ICOS web site update is now finally over. Over the winter the site was transferred from a server offered by the University of Sussex to a web hosting service in Finland, and at the same time the site layout and underlying support structures were changed extensively. The process did not go completely smoothly, but as of today the transition is over. Welcome to the new site, and please share any ideas you have about the further development of the site.
Antti Leino
Submitted by huu on Thu, 12/03/2009 - 10:02
The
Names
Society of Southern Africa
(NSA), jointly with the Centre
Submitted by huu on Fri, 31/10/2008 - 12:00
Colleagues:
It is with deep regret that I forward the news of the untimely death of Philip Dance of the University of Portsmouth, UK on October 21, 2008. Dance was 59 and had a blood clot on his bowel. After surgery, he died of septic shock.
Dance was a bibliographer of onomastics. During the past week, I had announced some of his bibliographic work available on the web. We had also collaborated on a major bibliography also on the web.
He will be missed.
Edwin D. Lawson
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 01/01/2007 - 00:00
Tafua, Tavua: Volcanic placenames in the South Pacific
William Bligh visited Tonga, in western Polynesia, while serving under Cook on his third and last voyage, and in 1789 he
returned to Tonga in search of water and provisions for his ship, HMS Bounty, which had been commissioned to
transport
breadfruit from Tahiti to the West Indies. Thirty miles to the southwest of the volcanic island of Tofua, which was
belching forth great columns of smoke and flame at the time, the famous mutiny led by Fletcher Christian took place.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 01/03/2006 - 00:00
Motlalepula
This is SeTswana for `Bringer of Rain' (compare the unit of currency of Botswana, the pula `rain', for rain is
prosperity on the edge of the Kalahari (Kgalagadi)). It is used as a
given name for both males and females, and may accordingly serve as a surname. It can be abbreviated to Pula.
It was formally bestowed on
Queen Elizabeth II as Head of the Commonwealth by President Nelson Mandela in 1996 because she arrived for a visit to
Gauteng in South
Africa during an unusually wet
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/01/2006 - 00:00
Brighton
Brighton, in Sussex on the south coast of England, formerly
Brighthelmston, has an Old English name meaning
`Brihthelm's farm or estate', where the male personal name involved, in "standard" or normalized West Saxon dialect,
would have been Beorhthelm `bright-helmet'. It is not recorded before
Domesday Book in 1086. For most of its history Brighton was a small town whose main industry was fishing, though the
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 01/10/2005 - 00:00
Regensburg
Regensburg liegt am nördlichsten Punkt der Donau. Die Stadt geht auf eine Gründung der Römer zurück, sie ist heute Hauptstadt des bayerischen Regierungsbezirks Oberpfalz, Sitz der Fürsten von Thurn und Taxis, hat einen berühmten Dom, in dem die Regensburger Domspatzen singen.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 01/08/2005 - 00:00
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 00:00
The district council ROTHER in Sussex, England
The name of the Sussex district council is taken from the name of the
river that flows through it from its sources near Five Ashes and
south-east of Rotherfield village to the sea at Rye. The river-name is
taken from the name of Rotherfield, and that is a puzzle in itself because
Five Ashes has never been in Rotherfield and the village of Rotherfield is
not actually on the river at all - nor is it in Rother District.
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