What's in a Name? Everything You Wanted to Know. New, Revised Edition
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Language: English
Published by Genealogical Publishing Company 2009-12-08, 2009
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- Title
- What's in a Name? Everything You Wanted to Know. New, Revised Edition
- Author
- Leonard R. N. Ashley
- Publisher
- Genealogical Publishing Company 2009-12-08
- Publication year
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0806312610
- ISBN 13
- 9780806312613
What's in a Name? will tell you the facts behind the names of persons, places and things; about how names are chosen for business and for success; how they are used for everything from tracing settlement patterns to telling fortunes; how forenames have their fashions; where surnames had their origins; all about names in the U.S. and around the globe.
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A scholar in the field of names, Ashley investigates naming practices worldwide, revealing how and why businesses, streets and people acquire their titles. Middle names, nicknames, trends and the psychology of naming are discussed. (Oct.)was there a PW review?/no/pk
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Not the usual what-to-name-your-baby book, Ashley's volume takes readers "on a lively introductory ramble through the entire field of name studies, succeeding in his stated purpose of entertaining as well as informing the general reader"
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Not the usual what-to-name-your-baby book, Ashley's volume takes readers "on a lively introductory ramble through the entire field of name studies, succeeding in his stated purpose of entertaining as well as informing the general reader"
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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