Naming your baby after a place has been popular for generations, and continues to be a popular approach to picking a baby ...

Names carry weight. I sat with that fact often in Sewanee, where I saw how labels can shape a place. Reporting in Rocky Top, ...

Some local place name pronunciations, though, have changed quite a bit. "When I first came here, I would pronounce them Dutch," Venema said, "and nobody would know what I was talking about." ...

Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn about the world around them and perceive their place in it. Names can send messages and suggest what is and isn’t ...

This interactive map shows where the U.S. Board on Geographic Names removed the offensive racial slur “squaw" from place names on Wednesday. In California, there were new names for 80 locations.

Place names are more than just labels on a map. They influence how people learn about the world around them and perceive their place in it. Names can send messages and suggest what is and isn’t ...

Hawaiian place names “help us to inform how we conduct ourselves in those places. So when we go to a place that is revered for being a very kapu place, a place that’s sacred, you conduct yourself in a ...

The longest place name in the world is a mouthful—and we dare you to try to pronounce it Every world traveler knows the struggles of trying to fit into a foreign country’s culture. You need to ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Two mountains in the National Park Service have been in the name-changing spotlight. One mountain has set a precedent for the Indigenous place name restoration of the ...

England is famous for its eccentric place names, from 'Matching Tye' to 'Fingringhoe' and 'Upton Snodsbury'. But a new AI study now reveals the most English-sounding locations in the country ...