Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

The Dumnonii gave their name to the English county of Devon, and their name is represented in Britain's two extant Brythonic languages as Dewnans in Cornish and Dyfnaint in Welsh.

A modified version of this proposal was accepted by Cromwell and the Council of Officers and less than a month after the dissolution of the Rump, during May 1653, letters in the name of the Lord-General and the Army Council were sent to Congregational churches in every county in England to nominate those they considered fit to take part in the new government.

In Ireland, usage of the word county nearly always comes before rather than after the county name ; thus " County Clare " in Ireland as opposed to " Clare County " in Michigan, US.

A further exception occurs in the case of those counties created after 1994 which often drop the word county entirely, or use it after the name ; thus for example internet search engines show many more uses ( on Irish sites ) of " Fingal " than of either " County Fingal " or " Fingal County ".

* County of Lincoln, archaic name for county of Lincolnshire, England

These family members gave their name to town lands called Ballymooney both in that county and in the neighboring county of Leix.

This was previously thought to lie in the area around Perth and the southern Strathearn, whereas recent work has convinced those working in the field that Moray ( a name referring to a very much larger area in the High Middle Ages than the county of Moray ), was the core of Fortriu.

The Robin Hood Way runs through Nottinghamshire and the county is home to literally thousands of other places, roads, inns and objects bearing Robin's name.

There is something of a modern movement amongst Yorkshire residents to attempt to claim the legend of Robin Hood, to the extent that South Yorkshire's new airport, on the site of the redeveloped RAF Finningley airbase near Doncaster, although ironically in the historic county of Nottinghamshire, has been given the name Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield.

Although " county " appears in some texts, " shire " was the normal name until counties for statutory purposes were created in the nineteenth century.

The county of Devon is also known as Devonshire, although this is not an official name and is not often used outside the county.

* List of Michigan county name etymologies

The name originated from ( Latin ) Revelia ( Estonian ) Revala or Rävala, the adjacent ancient name of the surrounding Estonian county.

Taking its name from the historic county of Sussex, the university received its Royal Charter in August 1961.

With the d ' Isigny name anglicised as " Disney ", the family settled in a village now known as Norton Disney, south of the city of Lincoln, in the county of Lincolnshire.

In the United Kingdom, many county names derive from the name of the county town with the word " shire " added on: for example, Gloucester, in Gloucestershire ; Worcester, in Worcestershire.

The name ' county ' was introduced by the Normans, and was derived from a Norman term for an area administered by a Count ( lord ).

Historically part of the parish of St Margaret in the county of Middlesex, the name Westminster was the ancient description for the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or monastery church, that gave the area its name – which has been the seat of the government of England ( and later the British government ) for almost a thousand years.

That girl last night, what was her name??

For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.

No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.

Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.

Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.

The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.

I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.

Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.

But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.

Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.

The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.

Her name was Esther Peter.

Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.

Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.

I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.

Do you say chantey, as if the word were derived from the French word chanter, to sing, or do you say shanty and think of a roughly built cabin, which derives its name from the French-Canadian use of the word chantier, with one of its meanings given as a boat-yard??

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

The name " abjad " is derived from the Arabic word for alphabet.

The name " abjad " ( ) is derived from pronouncing the first letters of the Arabic alphabet in order.

The name " argon " is derived from the Greek word αργον meaning " lazy " or " the inactive one ", a reference to the fact that the element undergoes almost no chemical reactions.

The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

It has no etymological connection in French with Agincourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle ( attested as Egincourt 875 ), which is derived from another Germanic male name * Ingin -.

The subfamily name is derived from the generic name of the type genus, Allium.

The Latin name ' Asteraceae ' is derived from the type genus Aster, which is a Greek term, meaning " star ".

The vernacular name daisy, widely applied to members of this family, is derived from its Old English meaning, dægesege, from dæges eage meaning " day's eye ," and this was because the petals ( of Bellis perennis ) open at dawn and close at dusk.

The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.

His name was derived from two other fictional detectives of the time: Marie Belloc Lowndes ' Hercule Popeau and Frank Howel Evans ' Monsieur Poirot, a retired Belgian police officer living in London.

The word was probably derived from the contemporary name, les argotiers, given to a group of thieves at that time.

The common name alder is derived from an old Germanic root, also found to be the translation of the Old French verne for alder or copse of alders.

The name of Germany and the German language, in French, Allemagne, allemand, in Portuguese Alemanha, alemão, in Spanish Alemania, alemán, and in Welsh ( Yr ) Almaen, almaeneg are derived from the name of this early Germanic tribal alliance.

Their most widely known ethnonym is derived from the word ainu, which means " human " ( particularly as opposed to kamui, divine beings ), basically neither ethnicity nor the name of a race, in the Hokkaidō dialects of the Ainu language ; Emishi ( Ebisu ) and Ezo ( Yezo ) ( both ) are Japanese terms, which are believed to derive from another word for " human ", which otherwise survived in Sakhalin Ainu as enciw or enju.

Alexander () is a common male first name, and less common surname derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ).

Etymologically, the name is derived from the Greek " Αλέξανδρος " ( Aléxandros ), meaning " defending men " or " protector of men ", a compound of the verb " ἀλέξω " ( alexō ), " to ward off, to avert, to defend " and the noun " ἀνδρός " ( andros ), genitive of " ἀνήρ " ( anēr ), " man ".

Both Stephanus and Eustathius write of these Amazons in connection with the placename Thibais, which they report to have been derived from Thiba's name.

Agathocles ( 361 – 289 BC ), ( Greek name Ἀγαθοκλῆς ( Agathokles ): derived from αγαθός ( agathos ) good and κλέος ( kleos ) glory ), was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse ( 317 – 289 BC ) and king of Sicily ( 304 – 289 BC ).

Amalric is a personal name derived from the tribal name Amal ( referring to the Gothic Amali ) and ric ( Gothic reiks ) meaning " ruler, prince ".