Name Studies (this was incorrectly cited in Callary's YWES review as 'JSPNS' which he misattributed as the 'Journal of the Scottish Place Name Society'; this is a misunderstanding on a couple of levels a) that the actual title of the journal is the Journal of Scottish Name Studies; b) that the journal (referred to herein as JSNS) is independent of the Scottish Place-Name Society. FaNBI The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (the editors use this abbreviation themselves in the work's Introduction, hence its adoption here) NomAf Nomina Africana PoO Problems of Onomastics (Voprosy Onomastiki) QRIO Quaderni di Rivista Italiana di Onomastica 8. Onomastics The years 2015 and 2016 saw the publication of a number of important and instructive books, monographs, and other works by established and emerging scholars of onomastics. 2016 in particular was exceptionally fruitful, with the culmination of the Family Names of the United Kingdom (FaNUK) project, under the direction of Professor Richard Coates at the University of the West of England. The impressive four-volume Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland, the work of many hands, is accompanied by a website available through Oxford Reference Online, and while its £400 price tag makes it an unlikely purchase for the casual buyer, the availability of the text online should enable many researchers to gain access through public and academic libraries. Not many academic publishers will currently take on works of this scale, and Oxford University Press deserves due credit for supporting this work, which took place under the auspices of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (2010-16). Onomastics also joined the growing number of sub-disciplines recognised by the Oxford Handbooks in Linguistics series, with Professor Carole Hough's edited volume, The Oxford Handbook of Names and Naming appearing both in hardback (2016) at £95 and-very conveniently for those of us who teach the subject-in considerably more affordable (£35) paperback form (2017). Onomastics in the United Kingdom is very strongly supported by the work of both Professor Hough and Professor Coates, and the breadth and depth of current scholarship is showcased through these two important publications, which will no doubt shape the study and progression of the subject for many years to come. Additionally, in the past two years, a wide range of onomastic material has appeared in books and journals addressing both the more traditional, historical approaches, and the more political, innovative investigations of name data. In terms of historical and etymological work, notable new books include Alan Macniven's volume, The Vikings in Islay: The Place of Names in Hebridean Settlement History (2015), and the addition of Part Seven of Barrie Cox's The Place-Names of Leicestershire (2016) to the Survey of English Place-Names. Critical, political onomastic work was the focus of a number of papers and chapters, and received a considerable boost with the addition of Guy Puzey and Laura Kost...
