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

ISBN-13: 9780550104298 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 480 str.

Julia Cresswell

Opis

What does the name Calvin mean? What is the meaning of Beverley? Which boy's name means "little seal?" Which girl's name means "spear strength?" And what links Merle and Mavis?Thishandyreferenceoffers pronunciations, meanings, histories, variant spellings, and other colorful information regarding 10,000 names in more than 4,000 entries. It also explains changing fashions in names; mentions famous historical, literary, or cultural figures who bore a name; and offers invaluable advice on everything from cultural traditions to potential pitfalls in naming your child. Whether you re an expectant parent, have a scholarly interest, or simply want to look up your own name or those of your friends, you will find "Chambers Dictionary of First Names" to be endlessly fascinating. Answers: bald; beaver stream; Ronan; Gertrude; and both are birds: Merle means blackbird and Mavis means songthrush."

Recenzje

An excellent book to help with the daunting task of choosing a name for life for your child www.babyworld.co.uk

Spis treści

• : 10,000 names from Aaliyah to Zyta

O autorze

Julia Cresswell is the author of over a dozen books, all of which are connected with the history and development of words, names and language.
She was educated at the Cheltenham Ladies College and St Hugh's College, Oxford, where she studied English with a special emphasis on the medieval and the history of the language. Here, she first became fascinated with the way the English language has developed and the influences that have directed its development. She subsequently gained a PhD at the University of Reading.
She has split her working life between writing and teaching. She has taught for both the Oxford universities and at some of the many American university programmes in Oxford. She now concentrates on the American colleges and summer schools for the Department of External Studies at the University of Oxford.
Her numerous books include The Cat's Pyjamas: The Penguin Book of Cliches (Penguin, 2007), Naming Your Baby: The Definitive Dictionary of First Names (A & C Black, 2007), First Names (Collins, 2003), From Trojan Horse to Soup Dragon: Collins Dictionary of Allusions (Collins, 1997), Bloomsbury Dictionary of First Names (Bloomsbury, 2001) and The Guinness Book of British Place Names (with Fred MacDonald, 1993).
She is married with one son and lives in North Oxford.