Babies' Names - Softcover

Hanks, Patrick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019956342X ISBN 13: 9780199563425

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2010

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Babies' names editado por Oxford UP

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Reseña del editor:

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.

Biografía del autor:

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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• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 019956342X
• ISBN 13: 9780199563425
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416