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The Penguin dictionary of surnames /
"Mangled by centuries of mispronunciation, misunderstanding and misspelling, the surnames we have inherited are explained here by a philologist with an alert sense of humour. An analysis of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish surnames, including the 100 commonest in the United Kingdom, the Briti...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Penguin Reference,
1978.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Penguin reference books
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"Mangled by centuries of mispronunciation, misunderstanding and misspelling, the surnames we have inherited are explained here by a philologist with an alert sense of humour. An analysis of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish surnames, including the 100 commonest in the United Kingdom, the British Commonwealth and the United States. In this second edition Basil Cottle has added 4,000 new entries, concentrating on the rare and the complicated. Meanings are given, along with the language stock from which names derive and, wherever possible, their present distribution. Entries are assigned tot he four broad classes of surnames, i.e. those based on first-names (e.g. Jackson, Rhys, McAdam, O'Brien), localities (e.g. Baldock, Bewley, Kirk, Shaw), occupations (e.g. Caird, Fuller, Provost, Smith), and nicknames (e.g. Moneypenny, Kellogg, Gotobed, Wellbeloved)."--Back cover. |
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| Physical Description: |
443, [1] pages ; 20 cm. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-444). |
| ISBN: |
014051032X 9780140510324 |