Robert M Rennick
Biographic Data
| ID | 704238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Rennick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Rennick |
| SIGNATURE | RENNICK R M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
In Memoriam: William A. Withington
a graduate of Harvard and Northwestern Universities, and a longtime member of the Geography faculty of the University of Kentucky, was a Lexington-based fellow member of the Kentucky Geographic Names Committee (our state's affiliate with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names).In addition to his numerous articles and papers on Kentucky l,akes and waterways and• the placenames of Lexington and Fayette County, he produced articles on a variety of geogr…
How to Study Placenames
The following presents instructions on how to properly study placenames. Beginning by assembling a list of placenames one then must decide what they want to know about each name. A list of information that is desired for each placename is enumerated, ranging from the spelling to the historical circumstance of the naming. A classification system is then presented for the names on the basis of the names themselves rather than the purposes for namin…
Baseball, Barns and Bluegrass: A Geography of American Folklife (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 453, Summer 2001
California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names, and: 1500 California Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 453, Summer 2001
Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 453, Summer 2001
Baseball, Barns and Bluegrass: A Geography of American Folklife
Book Review| July 01 2001 Baseball, Barns and Bluegrass: A Geography of American Folklife Baseball, Barns and Bluegrass: A Geography of American Folklife, George O. Carney. Robert M. Rennick Robert M. Rennick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2001) 114 (453): 384–385. https://doi.org/10.2307/542030 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names1500 California Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning
Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends
Book Review| July 01 2001 Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends, David Holt and Bill Mooney. Robert M. Rennick Robert M. Rennick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2001) 114 (453): 387–388. https://doi.org/10.2307/542032 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert M. Rennick; Spiders …
The Post Offices of Daviess County, Kentucky
Following the suggestions in Names (September, 1992) and elsewhere, this article shows what can be done with the systematic study of a county's post offices. Daviess County's 71 post offices are located, with brief histories and descriptions of the communities they serve, along with the derivations of all known names
Research in Placenames, a Cautionary Note
has long been involved in the study of placenames and has published several books on names in Kentucky, the latest of which, Place Names of Pike County, Kentucky, is reviewed by Rowan Daggett in this issue of Names. The following statement is adapted from the introduction to that book. Although the following was written prior to the appearance in these pages of an article by Jon C. Campbell
Naming Systems
Kentucky Place Names
From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such places known in the state, the names were chosen as a representative sample among Kentucky's counties and sections. Kentucky Place Names offers a fascinati…
On the Success of Efforts to Retain the Names of Several American Communities in the Two World Wars
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
On the Right of Exclusive Possession of a Family Name
The Alleged “Hogg Sisters,” or Simple Ground Rules for Collectors of “Odd” Names
As a collector of curious and unusual personal names, I often receive letters from persons wishing to share with me examples of such names which they have encountered. And, like my fellow newspaper readers, I have been exposed to the lists of odd names and name combinations that occasionally appear in the feature columns of a number of publications. I am sure that I share with many persons a concern about the authenticity of these names. Yet too …
Indiana Place Names
The Nazi Name Decrees of the Nineteen Thirties
Hitlers and Others who Changed their Names and a Few who Did Not
of Germany in 1933, there were some 22 families named Hitler or Hittler listed in the New York telephone directories. By the end of the war there were none. While some of these name-bearers might have left the city in that time, examination of contemporary court records and news releases suggests that many more had deliberately changed their names. This paper is an account of several of these cases and an examination of the procedures by which th…
Obscene Names and Naming in Folk Tradition
IN HIS BRIEF INTROD UCTION to that pioneering venture into serious consideration of traditional erotica which appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of American Folklore,1 Frank Hoffman pointed out that this field of study had received virtually no recognition by folklorists until the symposium of which he was chairman met to consider this matter in the winter of 1960. Hoffman and his colleagues made us clearly aware of the problems inherent i…
Pills, Petticoats, and Plows: The Southern Country Store
Judicial Procedures for a Change–of–Name in The United States
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Pills, Petticoats and Plows: The Southern Country Store
The Nazi Name Decrees of the Nineteen Thirties
How to Study Placenames
The following presents instructions on how to properly study placenames. Beginning by assembling a list of placenames one then must decide what they want to know about each name. A list of information that is desired for each placename is enumerated, ranging from the spelling to the historical circumstance of the naming. A classification system is then presented for the names on the basis of the names themselves rather than the purposes for namin…
On the Success of Efforts to Retain the Names of Several American Communities in the Two World Wars
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Obscene Names and Naming in Folk Tradition
IN HIS BRIEF INTROD UCTION to that pioneering venture into serious consideration of traditional erotica which appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of American Folklore,1 Frank Hoffman pointed out that this field of study had received virtually no recognition by folklorists until the symposium of which he was chairman met to consider this matter in the winter of 1960. Hoffman and his colleagues made us clearly aware of the problems inherent i…
Judicial Procedures for a Change–of–Name in The United States
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Hitlers and Others who Changed their Names and a Few who Did Not
of Germany in 1933, there were some 22 families named Hitler or Hittler listed in the New York telephone directories. By the end of the war there were none. While some of these name-bearers might have left the city in that time, examination of contemporary court records and news releases suggests that many more had deliberately changed their names. This paper is an account of several of these cases and an examination of the procedures by which th…
Judicial Procedures for a Change–of–Name in The United States
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
Pills, Petticoats and Plows: The Southern Country Store
Pills, Petticoats, and Plows: The Southern Country Store
Obscene Names and Naming in Folk Tradition
IN HIS BRIEF INTROD UCTION to that pioneering venture into serious consideration of traditional erotica which appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of American Folklore,1 Frank Hoffman pointed out that this field of study had received virtually no recognition by folklorists until the symposium of which he was chairman met to consider this matter in the winter of 1960. Hoffman and his colleagues made us clearly aware of the problems inherent i…
Hitlers and Others who Changed their Names and a Few who Did Not
of Germany in 1933, there were some 22 families named Hitler or Hittler listed in the New York telephone directories. By the end of the war there were none. While some of these name-bearers might have left the city in that time, examination of contemporary court records and news releases suggests that many more had deliberately changed their names. This paper is an account of several of these cases and an examination of the procedures by which th…
The Nazi Name Decrees of the Nineteen Thirties
Indiana Place Names
The Alleged “Hogg Sisters,” or Simple Ground Rules for Collectors of “Odd” Names
As a collector of curious and unusual personal names, I often receive letters from persons wishing to share with me examples of such names which they have encountered. And, like my fellow newspaper readers, I have been exposed to the lists of odd names and name combinations that occasionally appear in the feature columns of a number of publications. I am sure that I share with many persons a concern about the authenticity of these names. Yet too …
Kentucky Place Names
From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such places known in the state, the names were chosen as a representative sample among Kentucky's counties and sections. Kentucky Place Names offers a fascinati…
On the Success of Efforts to Retain the Names of Several American Communities in the Two World Wars
DOAJ is a unique and extensive index of diverse open access journals from around the world, driven by a growing community, committed to ensuring quality content is freely available online for everyone
On the Right of Exclusive Possession of a Family Name
Naming Systems
Research in Placenames, a Cautionary Note
has long been involved in the study of placenames and has published several books on names in Kentucky, the latest of which, Place Names of Pike County, Kentucky, is reviewed by Rowan Daggett in this issue of Names. The following statement is adapted from the introduction to that book. Although the following was written prior to the appearance in these pages of an article by Jon C. Campbell
The Post Offices of Daviess County, Kentucky
Following the suggestions in Names (September, 1992) and elsewhere, this article shows what can be done with the systematic study of a county's post offices. Daviess County's 71 post offices are located, with brief histories and descriptions of the communities they serve, along with the derivations of all known names
Baseball, Barns and Bluegrass: A Geography of American Folklife (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 453, Summer 2001
California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names, and: 1500 California Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 453, Summer 2001
Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends (review)
Journal of American Folklore - Volume 114, Number 453, Summer 2001
Baseball, Barns and Bluegrass: A Geography of American Folklife
Book Review| July 01 2001 Baseball, Barns and Bluegrass: A Geography of American Folklife Baseball, Barns and Bluegrass: A Geography of American Folklife, George O. Carney. Robert M. Rennick Robert M. Rennick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2001) 114 (453): 384–385. https://doi.org/10.2307/542030 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citati…
California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names1500 California Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning
Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends
Book Review| July 01 2001 Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends Spiders in the Hairdo: Modern Urban Legends, David Holt and Bill Mooney. Robert M. Rennick Robert M. Rennick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2001) 114 (453): 387–388. https://doi.org/10.2307/542032 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Robert M. Rennick; Spiders …
How to Study Placenames
The following presents instructions on how to properly study placenames. Beginning by assembling a list of placenames one then must decide what they want to know about each name. A list of information that is desired for each placename is enumerated, ranging from the spelling to the historical circumstance of the naming. A classification system is then presented for the names on the basis of the names themselves rather than the purposes for namin…
In Memoriam: William A. Withington
a graduate of Harvard and Northwestern Universities, and a longtime member of the Geography faculty of the University of Kentucky, was a Lexington-based fellow member of the Kentucky Geographic Names Committee (our state's affiliate with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names).In addition to his numerous articles and papers on Kentucky l,akes and waterways and• the placenames of Lexington and Fayette County, he produced articles on a variety of geogr…
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