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The Book of English Place Names: How Our Towns and Villages Got Their Names

By Caroline Taggart

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9780091940430 | Ebury Pr, April 28, 2011, cover price $24.95

Dictionary of First Names: An Indispensable Guide to More Than 10,000 Names

By Julia Cresswell

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9780550104298 | Hodder & Stoughton, October 5, 2009, cover price $15.95

Football Club Origins And Nicknames

Product Description: This is a unique look at the history behind the names of the most famous football teams in Britain and will appeal to all football fans and anyone interested in the history and origins of football clubs.- Why is it, for example, that Stockport County is so named when there was never a Stockportshire?- And why Leeds United or Huddersfield Town? Some clubs have a perfectly straightforward ancestry; others are more complex...read more

By Michael Heatley

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9780711032712 | Ian Allan Pub, June 19, 2008, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This is a unique look at the history behind the names of the most famous football teams in Britain and will appeal to all football fans and anyone interested in the history and origins of football clubs.

Shakespeare's Names

Product Description: How do names attach themselves to particular objects and people and does this connection mean anything? This is a question which goes as far back as Plato and can still be seen in contemporary society with books of Names to Give Your Baby or Reader's Digest columns of apt names and professions...read more

By Laurie E. Maguire

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9780199219971 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 11, 2007, cover price $68.00 | About this edition: How do names attach themselves to particular objects and people and does this connection mean anything?

Names And History: People, Places And Things

Product Description: How names were acquired, and how they have changed, is a subject of perennial fascination. They are part of our personal histories, defining who we are and where we live. Names are everywhere, identifying people, places, animals, ships, materials, plants, public houses and fields...read more

By George Redmonds

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9781852854263 | Hambledon Pr, February 1, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: How names were acquired, and how they have changed, is a subject of perennial fascination.

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9781852855079 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, March 15, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: How names were acquired, and how they have changed, is a subject of perennial fascination.

Family Names and Family History

Product Description: Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history. The story of their evolution is integral to family history and fascinating in its own right. Formed from first names, place names, nicknames and occupations, names allow us to trace the movements of our ancestors from the middle ages to the present day...read more

By David Hey

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9781852852559 | Hambledon Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $24.95

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9781852855505 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, August 15, 2006, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Family names are an essential part of everyone's personal history.

English Place-names Explained

A comprehensive study of English placenames - their linguistic roots, historical connections and meanings. Also includes a county-by-county guide to the main placenames and their origins.

By Charles Whynne-Hammond

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9781853069116 | Countryside Books, December 31, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A comprehensive study of English placenames - their linguistic roots, historical connections and meanings.

A Corpus-based Study of Proper Names in Present-day English: Aspects of Gradience And Article Usage

Product Description: Based on a large sample of press data extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC), the book undertakes a detailed investigation of present-day English proper names, an important but under-researched area in English linguistics...read more

By Grace Y. W. Tse

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9780820476667 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 1, 2005, cover price $50.95 | About this edition: Based on a large sample of press data extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC), the book undertakes a detailed investigation of present-day English proper names, an important but under-researched area in English linguistics.

9783631534533 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 11, 2005, cover price $76.95 | About this edition: Based on a large sample of press data extracted from the British National Corpus (BNC), the book undertakes a detailed investigation of present-day English proper names, an important but under-researched area in English linguistics.

The Place-names of Cardiganshire

By Iwan Wmffre

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9781841716664 | British Archaeological Reports Ltd, December 31, 2004, cover price $262.50

Searching For Surnames: A Practical Guide To Their Meaning And Origins

Product Description: In the search for ancestors, names are the starting point. Here is a solid working guide for family tree historians to surnames - their history, identification, and variations. Written with his usual clarity and enthusiasm by professional genealogist John Titford.

By John Titford

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9781853067655 | Countryside Books, July 1, 2003, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In the search for ancestors, names are the starting point.

Canadian Warship Names

By David J. Freeman

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9781551250489 | Vanwell Pub Ltd, August 1, 2001, cover price $23.95

Place-Names in the Landscape: The Geographical Roots of Britain's Place-Names

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By Margaret Gelling

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9781842122648 | Phoenix, August 1, 2001, cover price $17.95

The Element -Stow in the History of English

By Mikael Cederlof

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9789155442187 | Almqvist & Wiksell Intl, October 1, 1998, cover price $46.50

Best Baby Names for Jewish Children

Product Description: A handy trade paperback that presents thousands of appealing names from which parents can make a suitable selection for their newborns. Each entry gives the origin and meaning of the name and suggests one Hebrew equivalent. Includes Anglicized forms of the latest and most popular names used in Israel...read more

By Alfred J. Kolatch

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9780824604066 | Jonathan David Pub, May 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A handy trade paperback that presents thousands of appealing names from which parents can make a suitable selection for their newborns.

Dictionary of First Names

By Iseabail C. MacLeod

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9781853263668 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd, January 1, 1998, cover price $7.99

Cassell Dictionary of First Names

Product Description: From the traditional to the unusual, this dictionary explains the meaning of over 2000 names, showing where they came from and how their popularity has risen and fallen in time. In addition it provides information on fictional and real-life people whose fame has popularized their names...read more

By Adrian Room

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9780304349159 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, October 1, 1997, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: From the traditional to the unusual, this dictionary explains the meaning of over 2000 names, showing where they came from and how their popularity has risen and fallen in time.

What's in a Name?: Reflections of an Irrepressible Name Collector

Introduces unusual names for people, animals, apples, businesses, places, vehicles, and other items, as well as name anagrams, fashionable names, and other remarkable names

By Paul Dickson

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9780877796138, titled "What's in a Name?: Reflections of an Irrepressible Name Collector" | Merriam Webster, October 1, 1996, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Introduces unusual names for people, animals, apples, businesses, places, vehicles, and other items, as well as name anagrams, fashionable names, and other remarkable names

Dictionary of First Names

Product Description: An A-Z guide to over 2000 contemporary English first names. The book covers traditional names (such as Mary, John and Peter), more modern names (such as Wayne, Gemma and Kirsty) and unusual names (such as Festus, Almira and Lalange). names.

By Adrian Room

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9780304343980 | Cassell, August 1, 1995, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An A-Z guide to over 2000 contemporary English first names.

By Any Other Name

Recounts the origins of place names, companies, products, sports nicknames, tribal names, band names, and words based on proper names

By Michael D. Shook

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9780671864750 | 1 edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, February 1, 1994), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Recounts the origins of place names, companies, products, sports nicknames, tribal names, band names, and words based on proper names

A "Brand" New Language: Commercial Influences in Literature and Culture

Product Description: In the years since World War II, what began in the United States as a shift from a wartime to a peacetime economy soon led to a massive outpouring of new commercial offerings of consumer products and services accompanied by unprecedented efforts to market these commodities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Monroe Friedman

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9780313261695 | Praeger Pub Text, March 1, 1991, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: In the years since World War II, what began in the United States as a shift from a wartime to a peacetime economy soon led to a massive outpouring of new commercial offerings of consumer products and services accompanied by unprecedented efforts to market these commodities.

Place-Names of Great Britain and Ireland

Product Description: The names of our towns and villages often provide insights into their origins and history. The problem is that the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings and Normans have all left their mark on the place-names of these islands and the mingling of their languages and the linguistic changes over the centuries have often obscured the original roots and led to misinterpretation...read more

By John Field

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9780715374399 | Reprint edition (David & Charles, November 1, 1990), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The names of our towns and villages often provide insights into their origins and history.

Dictionary of First Names

Product Description: The Dictionary of first Names, the culmination of thirty-five years of research in the field of nomenclature, is an invaluable guide for parents-to-be, students of language, and scholars.

By Alfred J. Kolatch

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9780399516337 | 2 reissue edition (J P Tarcher, October 1, 1990), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The Dictionary of first Names, the culmination of thirty-five years of research in the field of nomenclature, is an invaluable guide for parents-to-be, students of language, and scholars.

Herefordshire Place-names

By Bruce Copplestone-crow

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9780860546887 | British Archaeological Reports Ltd, December 31, 1989, cover price $36.00

Early Place-names of the Anglian Regions of England

By Gordon Copley

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9780860545279 | British Archaeological Reports Ltd, December 31, 1988, cover price $42.50

The Oxford Minidictionary of First Names

Product Description: A new guide to the origin and meaning of over 1,500 first names in common use in the English-speaking world.

By Patrick Hanks

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9780198661351 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1986, cover price $24.94 | About this edition: A new guide to the origin and meaning of over 1,500 first names in common use in the English-speaking world.

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