Editing Gazetteer (section)

==Etymology==
The ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' defines a "gazetteer" as a "geographical index or dictionary".<ref name="white 658"/> It includes as an example a work by the British historian [[Laurence Echard]] (d.&nbsp;1730) in 1693 that bore the title "The Gazetteer's: or Newsman's Interpreter: Being a Geographical Index".<ref name="white 658"/> Echard wrote that the title "Gazetteer's" was suggested to him by a "very eminent person" whose name he chose not to disclose.<ref name="white 658"/> For Part&nbsp;II of this work published in 1704, Echard referred to the book simply as "the Gazeteer". This marked the introduction of the word "gazetteer" into the [[English language]].<ref name="white 658">White, 658.</ref> Historian Robert C. White suggests that the "very eminent person" written of by Echard was his colleague [[Edmund Bohun]], and chose not to mention Bohun because he became associated with the [[Jacobitism|Jacobite movement]].<ref name="white 658"/>

Since the 18th century, the word "gazetteer" has been used interchangeably to define either its traditional meaning (i.e.,&nbsp;a geographical dictionary or directory) or a daily [[newspaper]], such as the ''London Gazetteer''.<ref name="thomas 623 636">Thomas, 623–636.</ref><ref name="asquith 703 724">Asquith, 703–724.</ref>