Names New and Old: Papers of the Names Institute

ISBN-10: 0773475346
ISBN-13: 9780773475342
Category: Names
Pages: 576
Language: English
Published: 2002
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Author: Edwin Wallace McMullen

Description

These essays tell the story of geographic, literary, personal and various other types of names. Information on names is offered chronologically from 1391 up to the present time and the 'hip-lit' names used in Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero. There are also technical studies, such as the names of drugs in the world of street-Spanish, and the sound patterns of proper names in the English language.

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