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STEVE BINNS MBE, above, is Liverpool City Council's community historian. He researches the city's past for his lectures and broadcasts. How does he think his city got its name?
"There are at least 43 different spellings of Liverpool," he says. "In those times (before Dr Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language in the mid-18th century) people spelt words phonetically. By about 1800 you came to the usual spelling of Liverpool, but even then some people didn't use it. There is a guide book of 1820 where it is given as Liverpole.See the full content of this document
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