Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Richard Coates is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sussex , and President of the English Place-Name Society. He is Editor of the Survey of English Place-Names for Hampshire, and is one of the only people to brave an interpretation of the meaning of Londinium in recent years. External Links Richard Coates An Explanation of the Name of London This will download the text of the article This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.