Rosenkrantz, Linda, and Pamela Redmond Satran. Baby Names Now. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2002. Rosenkrantz, Linda, and Pamela Redmond Satran. Beyond Charles and Diana: An Anglophile's Guide to Baby Naming.
Aimed at the American market, Stafford's 60,001+ Best Baby Names (STBBN, 2008) speaks for itself and is in marked contrast ... for larger inventories is the huge increase since World War II in the size and diversity of the name stock, ...
KYRA Sedgwick GLENN Close ( female ) GRIFFIN Dunne GWYNETH Paltrow LAKE Bell LEELEE Sobieski LEONARDO DiCaprio HALLE Berry HARRISON Ford LIAM Neeson HAYDEN Christenson HEATH Ledger LIEV Schreiber LIV Tyler Jennifer LOVE Hewitt IBEN ...
This new book is a fun, interesting and educational journey through the world of etymology. It covers a huge array of names from a variety of topic areas, and includes a bunch of random facts behind the names.
Inside this book: - Accurate meanings for each name - Its country of origin - The historical and literary figures who make it famous - The root word for each name - Nicknames and variations plus The Special Astrology section that reveals ...
This handbook offers an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful for specialists and accessible to the general reader.
... Rose Marie, Rose McGowan, actresses; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, matriarch of the Kennedy family; Rose Maddox, singer; Rosa Parks, civil-rights heroine.
This is a book about the concept of a physical thing and about how the names of things relate to the things they name.
The Terrible Meanings of Names reveals the strange (and sometimes insulting) meanings behind the names you hear every day.
An expanded edition of 55,000+ Baby Names with over 60,000 names and 200 fun, helpful lists of names to consider.
IIs are attempts to simulate real-life conversations with others. This book is about the characteristics and functions of IIs. Chapter 1 reviews some of the research on components of daydreaming.