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We all have a first name, but how many of us really know its origin and history? This comprehensive dictionary provides a fascinating collection of linguistic, historical, and associated information about some 7,000 names, making it ideal reference for linguists and family historians, as well as an importnat source of information for parents choosing a name for a child.
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Patrick Hanks has been a lexicographer and linguistic researcher for over twenty-five years. He is now Chief Editor, Current English Dictionaries, at Oxford University Press. Flavia Hodges is a philologist, lexicographer, and publisher. Together they have written A Dictionary of Surnames and A Dictionary of Babies' Names also published by OUP.
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