Terhi Ainiala elsewhere on the internet

”Helvetinkolusta Kivesjärvelle. Mitä suomalaiset paikannimet kertovat?” (‘From Hell’s hole to Lake Bollocks –what can you learn from Finnish place names?’), Terhi Ainiala in conversation with Johanna Lehtonen, place name planner, and Roman Schatz, YLE Radio 1 Maamme-kirja programme 19 January 2015
Terhi Ainiala’s blog, Institute for the Languages of Finland online
”Oslo ja Pietari ovat vaihtaneet nimensä, miksei myös Helsinki?” (’Oslo and St Petersburg have changed their names, so why not Helsinki?’, Yle domestic news, 29 December 2014
”Nimistötutkija toivoo, että ainakin Trafi ja Destia tekisivät postit” (’Toponomastician hopes that road authorities would change their names’), Yle domestic news, 14 August 2014 (incl. video)
"’Tää on yolo hetki’ – Nuoret opettavat nykyslangia” (‘Feelin kinda crunchy Young people teach slang’), Yle domestic news, 9 April 2014
”2010-luvun Stadin slangissa kaikuvat englanti ja some”(’2010s Helsinki city slang chimes in with English and social media’), Helsingin Sanomat, 9.4.2014

By Written by Terhi Ainiala and Riitta-Ilona Hurmerinta (ed). Translated by John Calton.

Terhi Ainiala

Terhi Tuulikki Ainiala
Born July 4, 1967

Master of Arts 1991 and Doctor of Philosophy 1997 (Finnish Language), University of Helsinki.

Finnish language University Lecturer 2012- , University of Helsinki

Researcher, Special Investigator, Head of Research Division, Institute for the Languages of Finland, 1991-2011; Research Assistant, Academy of Finland 1995-97 (on secondment from Institute).
Docent in Finnish Language, 2003-, University of Helsinki

Publications, research projects and other academic activities
Research interests: onomastics, specialising in socio-onomastics and urban place names; slang

Written by Terhi Ainiala and Riitta-Ilona Hurmerinta (ed.)
Translated by John Calton