Despite its significance, the received version of Liverpool's linguistic history is not the only narrative told about language in Liverpool. For on a more specific level, there are word-stories that have been woven about both the name of the place itself and the terms used to refer to the people who live in it. The purpose of this appendix, then, will be to explore the ways in which ‘Liverpool’, ‘Liverpolitan’, ‘Liverpudlian’, ‘Dicky Sam’, ‘Whacker’, ‘Scouse’ and ‘Scouser’ have been explained and made the subject of particular types of narration. As will become clear, the stories of these words have been spun by various types of cultural and linguistic analysts, both professional and amateur: etymologists, onomasticians, historians, social observers, journalists, folklorists and practitioners of popular culture have all had their say. Sometimes ‘scientific’, sometimes highly speculative, sometimes pointed, sometimes comic, the narratives are united only by the underlying sense that the terms under review are worthy of attention – a proper subject of analysis and therefore in need of investigation. Thus, given that all stories in one way and another are posited on a necessary confidence in the significance of their subject matter, the narratives to be analysed in this chapter play an important role in the formation of the notion that the language of Liverpool is a discursive object in its own right. That is, they contribute to the idea that this is a form of language that is specific to a particular place and a given set of people. As with the Irish dinnseanchas tradition (the lore of place names, including events and characters associated with a particular location), the histories of the terms considered below are themselves texts that make a contribution to the cultural history of Liverpool; they are in a sense part of the place. For these, if no other reasons, it is worth considering the stories told about the past and present terms used to name Liverpool and its population.