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How are housing estates named?

Over the past 20 years or so, with the proliferation of suburban housing estates, the naming of these places appears to be becoming more and more innocuous, with ‘meadow’ this and ‘brook’ that popping up left right and centre. But how does the naming of estates actually work and should there be a little more imagination involved? Sean was joined by Christopher Fitzgerald, a post doctoral researcher in Linguistics at Mary Immaculate College...

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15.15 23 Nov 2023


How are housing estates named?


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15.15 23 Nov 2023


Over the past 20 years or so, with the proliferation of suburban housing estates, the naming of these places appears to be becoming more and more innocuous, with ‘meadow’ this and ‘brook’ that popping up left right and centre. But how does the naming of estates actually work and should there be a little more imagination involved? Sean was joined by Christopher Fitzgerald, a post doctoral researcher in Linguistics at Mary Immaculate College...


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