• By Sadie
    May 14, 2009 3:30 PM 1,183
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    R.I.P. Margaret Gelling

    Margaret Gelling, an expert on the arcana of English place-names and who described herself as a "neat, keen, merry woman...sensibly shod and clad," has died at 84. [Economist]


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