_Etymology of "The Lizard."_--What is the etymology of the name "The
Lizard," as applied in our maps to that long low green point, stretching
out into the sea at the extreme south of England? My idea of the
etymology would be (judging from the name and pronunciation of a small
town in the immediate neighbourhood of the point) _lys-ard_, from two
Celtic words: the first, _lys_, as found in the name _Lismore_, and
others of a like class in Ireland and the Highlands of Scotland; the
second _ard_, a long point running into the sea. In Cornwall, to my ear,
the name had quite the Celtic intonation _L[=y]s-[=a]rd_; not at all
like _L[(i]z[=a]rd_, as we would speak it, short.