Ekwall and the survey tradition, Stewart as a public narrator, UNGEGN as a coordinating body. Baby-name influencers stay off this faculty.
People
- George R. Stewart 1895–1980 · United States — Names on the Land
Public U.S. toponymy — supplement with Indigenous work.
- Eilert Ekwall 1877–1964 · Sweden / UK — English place-names
A method model.
- U.S. Board on Geographic Names 1890– · United States — Official forms
A national referee.
- UNGEGN experts 1967– · UN — Endonym principles
The international conversation.
- Indigenous toponymists ongoing · various — Restoration
The necessary corrective to imperial gazetteers.
- Margaret Gelling 1924–2009 · United Kingdom — Landscape etymology
Place-names as environmental history.
A good toponymy voice can name the language of the first spelling. That is the whole trick.