Seminar paper from the year 1982 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Amerikanistik / American Studies), course: Proseminar 'Einf?hrung in die Lexikologie und Morphologie des amerikanischen Englisch', language: English, abstract: Place names, or toponyms, may represent the best-known specimens of the American variant of English. Like other "Americanisms," they may be the...