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Babies' Names

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Babies' Names

Babies' Names

4.00 (1 Ratings by Goodreads)
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Published: 14 January, 2010
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This brand new edition of Babies' Names will help you find the right name for your baby. The book gives over 2,500 names in common use in the English-speaking world with information on their meanings and origins. It spans traditional names, from Anne and Albert to Victoria and William, to modern names, from Azalea and Bryn to Brooklyn and Zanna and everything in between. New to this edition is an article with on how to find the right name or create your own, as well as additional material within entries on well-known bearers of the name, real and fictional. In addition to the A-Z list of names there is an appendix including thematic indexes for many names categories such as Biblical names, names from television and films, names from literature and popular culture, pet forms and nicknames, as well a list of the most popular names by year and by region. Babies' Names has all the information parents-to-be need to make the all-important choice of naming their baby.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9780199563425
ISBN10 019956342X
Number Of Pages 416
Item Weight 339 g
Product Dimensions 112 x 30 x 176 mm
Publisher / Reseller Oxford University Press, U.S.A
Format paperback
Edition 2
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Author's Bio


Patrick Hanks has been a lexicographer and linguistic researcher for over twenty-five years. He was Chief Editor for Current English Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, and is now a visiting professor at the University of the West of England in Bristol and the Charles University in Prague.

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