'placename' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a noun to refer to the name of a location, such as town, village, city, or country. For example, "I'm from the placename of Los Angeles."
Wikipedia has a fuller, highly amusing list of counterintuitive placename pronunciations.
What about you: dictionary absent, have you ever (embarrassingly, uncouthly, Frenchly) mispronounced a placename?
Even the placename is disputed.
A diplomatic source said: "The new placename could affect the already strained feelings between Britain and Argentina but it does not vulnerate the treaty".
Just to confuse everyone, a member of the privy council is a privy counsellor councils Only the placename takes a capital: Lancaster city council, London borough of Southwark, Kent county council, etc; it is normally sufficient to say Lancaster council, Southwark council, etc count 'em cliche often seen in parenthesis after a number is mentioned.
David Hammond used to say, 'Banter, banter is the curse of us all.'" Life in Mossbawn, in the Ulster countryside, is what gives Heaney his language and imagery - words like "braird", "seggans" and "sned", titles like A Hagging Match, The Haw Lantern, and Broagh, a placename almost impossible for an outsider to pronounce correctly.
For example, I can think of several clubs from Ireland and South America that feature non-placename names: Shamrock Rovers, Bohemians, Vasco Da Gama, Newell's Old Boys, etc". asks Alan Gregg.
The Italian De or Di is normally uppercase, eg Antonio Di Natale Foreign Office abbreviated to FCO not FO, as its official name is Foreign and Commonwealth Office foreign placenames Style for foreign placenames evolves with common usage.
My concern would have been lessened and my surprise greatly increased had I known that a teenage attitude these days means being a law-abiding citizen, abstaining from drink, drugs and casual sex and studying hard.Daniel Olive LondonA pleasurable vacationSIR – With reference to funny placenames (Letters, July 12th), how could you have missed Dildo Run in Canada?
We bungle some Spanish placenames: Los Angeles is a prominent example, but there's also the cowboyish Rio Grande ("RYE-oh Grand"), Ohio.
The omission of this success thus provides an insufficient analysis of cross-strait relations.Fen-chuan Hsu Deputy representative Taipei Representative Office in the UK London Do you know the way to…SIR – No article on funny placenames in America ("Odd and True and Hoohoo too", June 21st) is complete without mentioning Chicken, Alaska.
