All those wonderful names : a potpourri of people, places, and things
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All those wonderful names : a potpourri of people, places, and things
Wiley, c1991
- : pbk : alk. paper
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-296) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
A catalogue of amusing, absurd or interesting names. The author lists anomalous place-names, as well as the names of storms, pets, films and colours. Also included are the true names of famous people and the places of origin of various surnames.
目次
- THE NAMES PEOPLE GIVE THEIR DEFENSELESS CHILDREN
- Choosing Names for Girls
- Choosing Names for Boys
- Fads and Fancies in Bestowing (or Inflicting) Names
- Choosing a Name for Your Baby
- THE NAMES WE INHERIT
- The Names That Most of Us Answer to
- Changing Surnames
- Professionals Who Changed Their Names
- A Chapter for the Smiths, Johnsons, and Changs
- Surnames and Genealogy
- Some Jewish Family Names
- Names of African-Americans
- Names from the British Isles
- The National Origins of Some of Our Surnames
- Some Other Sources of Surnames
- Wonderful People with Strange-Sounding Names
- WE NAME ALMOST EVERY PLACE WE KNOW
- The Continents and the States
- How Places Get Their Names
- Whimsy and Humor
- Naming in the Wilds
- Improper (?) Names
- On the Big Apple and Smaller Apples
- This Is a Lovely Little Town, Wasn't It?
- Changing Times, Changing Names
- STILL MORE OF THESE AND A FEW OF THOSE
- Still More of These
- ....and a Few of Those
- Bibliography
- Index.
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