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Author Hanks, Patrick.

Title A dictionary of first names / Patrick Hanks, Kate Hardcastle, and Flavia Hodges
Edition Second edition
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006
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Description 1 online resource
Series Oxford paperback reference
Oxford paperback reference.
Summary Covers over 6,000 names in common use in English, including the traditional and the very newest. Provides the age, origin, and meaning of the name, as well as how it has fared in terms of popularity, and who the famous fictional or historical bearers of the name have been. Also covers alternative spellings, short forms and pet forms, masculine and feminine forms, as well as help with pronunciation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Print version record
Subject Names, Personal -- Dictionaries.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
Dictionaries.
Form Electronic book
Author Hardcastle, Kate.
Hodges, Flavia.
Oxford University Press.
ISBN 0191567035
0191726672 (electronic book)
0198610602
9780191567032
9780191726675 (electronic book)
9780198610601