This “obsession”, as she happily called it, seemed to have begun at St Hilda’s in Oxford, where she found her English course boring, but was encouraged by Dorothy Whitelock to look at place names.

她很高兴地称呼这种「热忱」，似乎起源于牛津大学的圣希尔达学院（St Hilda’s in Oxford），当时她觉得英文课很无聊，Dorothy Whitelock鼓励她去检索地名看看。

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