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  • Name into word; proper names that have become common property; a discursive dictionary, with a foreword.

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    • Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press [1970]
    • 1970-1950
    • 1 Item
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    Text *R-RMRR PE1583 .P35 1970Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference

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  • On defining the proper name.

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    • Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text L-10 3842 no. 39 v. 39-43 v. 39-43Offsite
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  • Nicknames, past and present [by] Vernon Noble. Foreword by Eric Partridge.

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    • London, H. Hamilton [1976]
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 78-5137Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • When you speak English you're often talking Hebrew.

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    • New York, Fellowship in Prayer, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *PCN 81-1764Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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  • BBC pronouncing dictionary of British names / edited and transcribed by G.E. Pointon.

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    • Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 99-465Offsite
  • Names : a collector's compendium of rare and unusual, bold and beautiful, odd and whimsical names / Paul Dickson.

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    • New York : Delacorte Press, by 1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 86-7625Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Transliteration into Tamil of extra-Biblical names and abbreviations of the books of the Bible. Edited by Albert Manuel.

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    • [Madras, Published by the Christian Literature Society ... for the Tamil Theological Literature Committee, 1963]
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *OKTP 89-15365Offsite
  • A history of English field names / John Field.

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    • London ; New York : Longman, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 94-1606Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Transkripcioni rečnik engleskih ličnih imena / Tvrtko Prćić.

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    • Beograd : Nolit, [1992]
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *QKK 94-2680Offsite
  • Proper names master index : a comprehensive index of more than 200,000 proper names that appear as entries in standard reference works / edited by Frank R. Abate ; with a foreword by Ladislav Zgusta.

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    • Detroit, Mich. : Omnigraphics, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 2 Items
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    Text APD 95-6792 v. 1 A-KSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    Text APD 95-6792 v. 2 L-ZSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • Words, names, and history : selected writings of Cecily Clark / edited by Peter Jackson.

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    • Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 96-8904Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Name into word; proper names that have become common property; a discursive dictionary. With a foreword.

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    • London, Secker and Warburg, 1949.
    • 1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text D-12 8986Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • An index of names in Pearl, Purity, Patience, and Gawain.

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    • Ithaca, Cornell University Press [1951]
    • 1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NCID (Chapman, C. O. Index of names)Offsite
  • Verba nominalia; or, Words derived from proper names. By Richard Stephen Charnock.

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    • London, Trübner & co., 1866.
    • 1866-1866
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text RNF (Charnock, R. S. Verba nominalia)Offsite
  • A New English dictionary, shewing the etymological derivation of the English tongue, in two parts. Part I. Explaining all the common English words, and shewing their derivation from the proper fountains. Part II. An etymological explication of the proper names of men, women, rivers, counties, cities, towns, villages, &c. which were formerly used by the English-Saxons, or are now common amongst us. A work of great use to the English reader, who is curious to know the original of his mother tongue.

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    • London, Printed for Timothy Childe ... 1691.
    • 1691
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Rare Books 11-82Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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  • Phrases and names, their origins and meanings, by Trench H. Johnson...

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    • London, T. W. Laurie [1906]
    • 1906
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *AY (Johnson, T. H. Phrases and names)Offsite
  • How you got your name: the origin and meaning of surnames, by James Pennethorne Hughes.

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    • London, Phoenix House, 1959.
    • 1959
    • 1 Item
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    Text APD (Hughes, J. P. How you got your name)Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • The origin of family or sur-names, with special reference to those of the inhabitants of East Dereham, in the county of Norfolk; being a lecture delivered at the Dereham Athenæum.

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    • Norwich, A.H. Goose & Co. [1882?]
    • 1882
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text ARF (Carthew, G. A. Origin of family or sur-names)Offsite
  • Dizionario ortoepico di nomi propri inglesi.

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    • Brescia, G. Vannini, 1938.
    • 1938
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text A p.v. 969Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The devil and his imps : an etymological inquisition / by Charles P.G. Scott.

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    • [Urbana, Ill.?] : American Philological Association, 1895.
    • 1895
  • Studies on the population of medieval London.

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    • Stockholm, Almquist & Wiksell [1956]
    • 1956
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text L-10 2909 v. 1 v. 1-3Offsite
  • Anhlo-ukraïnsʹkyĭ slovnyk vlasnykh nazv ta imen : blyzʹko 3 000 sliv i slovospoluchenʹ / [ukladann︠i︡a Tet︠i︡any Oliĭnyk].

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    • Ternopilʹ : Pidruchnyky & posibnyky, 2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *QGA 00-6924Offsite
  • {C}B̄wlgarska transkrip̨ti︠i︡a na angliĭski imena : teori︠i︡a i praktika / Andreĭ Dan̊cev.{R}

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    • {C}Sofi︠i︡a : D̄wr̊z. izd-vo Nar. prosveta,{R} 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *QK 85-2405Offsite
  • Beiträge zur Geschichte der englischen und chinesischen Anthroponomastik = Contributions to the history of English and Chinese anthroponomastics / von Silvio Brendler.

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    • Hamburg : Baar, 2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 03-5070Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Inheritance of English surnames / by Christopher M. Sturges and Brian C. Haggett.

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    • London : Hawgood Computing, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JAX G-2232Offsite
  • Sladostnyĭ dar, ili, Taĭna imen i prozvishch / Alla Ktorova.

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    • Moskva : Gamma Press, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *QCF 04-792Offsite
  • Names and history : people, places, and things / George Redmonds.

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    • London ; New York : Hambledon and London ; [New York] : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text APD 05-4741Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • How you got your name: the origin and meaning of surnames / by James Pennethorne Hughes.

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    • London : Phoenix House [label]: Hollywood-by-the-Sea, Fla., Transatlantic Arts, 1961]
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text NYGB ENG. G 205Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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  • An index of the Arthurian names in Middle English.

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    • Stanford : Stanford University Press, 1952.
    • 1952
    • 1 Item
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    Text RAA (Stanford University. Publications. University series: language and literature. v. 10) v. 10-12Offsite
  • The royal dictionary abridged [electronic resource] : In two parts. I. French and English. II. English and French. Containing near five thousand words more than any French and English dictionary yet extant: And, To which is Added, The Accents of all English Words, to Facilitate their Pronunciation to Foreigners. The second edition, carefully corrected, and improved with above Fifteen Hundred English Words, Extracted out of the most Approved Authors. As also, an alphabetical list of the most common Christian names of Men and Women; and the Abbreviations of the said Names Vulgarly used. By Mr. A. Boyer.

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    • London : printed for R. Clavel. H. Mortlock. J. Robinson. D. Brown. S. Crouch. J. Lawrence. A. and J. Churchil. R. Sare. S. Smith. J. Taylor. T. Horn. J. Nicholson. J. Knapton. R. Knaplock. J. Wyat. R. Wilkin. R. Wellington. B. Took. E. Castle D. Midwinter. E. Smith, 1708.
    • 1708
    • 1 Resource

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  • Freeholders, impanell'd for the tryal of Mr. John Matthews [electronic resource].

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    • [London, 1719]
    • 1719
    • 1 Resource

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  • A true copy of the pannel of the freeholders, as deliver'd to Mr. John Matthews [electronic resource].

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    • [London, 1719]
    • 1719
    • 1 Resource

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  • Slovarʹ angliĭskikh lichnykh imen : 4000 imen / A.I. Rybakin.

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    • Moskva : "Russkiĭ i︠a︡zyk", 1989.
    • 1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text CS2367 .R93 1989Off-site
  • Batty, bloomers and boycott : a little etymology of eponymous words / Rosie Boycott.

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    • London : Hutchinson, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PE1596 .B6 1982Off-site
  • English field-names : a dictionary.

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    • Newton Abbot : David and Charles, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text DA645 .F52Off-site
  • An index of names in Pearl, Purity, Patience, and Gawain.

    • Text
    • Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [1951]
    • 1951
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PR1203 .C46 1951gOff-site
  • Toponymics or derivations from local names in English.

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    • Uppsala : Appelbergs boktryckeri, 1920.
    • 1920
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 829.2 L26Off-site
  • Restrictive modification and article usage with English proper names / Aimo Seppänen.

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    • Umeå, Sweden : Umeå University, Department of English, 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PE1205 .S47 1982gOff-site
  • BBC pronouncing dictionary of British names: with an appendix of Channel Islands names; edited and transcribed by G. M. Miller.

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    • 1971
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PE1660 .B7Off-site
  • The English plant names in the Grete Herball, 1526 : a contribution to the historical study of English plant-name usage / by Mats Rydén.

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    • 1984
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text QK13 .R93 1984Off-site
  • On defining the proper name.

    • Text
    • Gainesville, University of Florida Press, 1973.
    • 1973
  • Name into word; proper names that have become common property; a discursive dictionary. With a foreword.

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    • 1949
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text 829.2 P258Off-site
  • Names and history : people, places, and things / George Redmonds.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : Hambledon and London ; [New York] : Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text P323 .R39 2004Off-site
  • Proper names in English : a study in semantics and syntax / Aimo Seppänen.

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    • Tampere : [Dept. of English Philology, University of Tampere], 1974.
    • 1974
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PE1205 .S4 v.2Off-site
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PE1205 .S4 v.1Off-site
  • Bŭlgarska transkript︠s︡ii︠a︡ na angliĭski imena : teorii︠a︡ i praktika / Andreĭ Danchev.

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    • Sofii︠a︡ : Nar. prosv., 1978 [dep. 1980]
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PE1156 .D36Off-site
  • Easton, Suffolk - the fields and field names.

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    • London, J. Packard, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text HD609.E3 P3Off-site
  • Words, names, and history : selected writings of Cecily Clark / edited by Peter Jackson.

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    • Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PE262 .C57 1995xOff-site
  • Records by spade and terrier : historical side-lights from the discovery of stone-age, Celtic, and Roman remains ; also from the etymology of local place and family names, from customs and folk-lore, garnered from the tithe-maps and registers of Holcombe-by-Mendip and surrounding district : being personal reminiscences.

    • Text
    • Bath : G. Gregory, [1912]
    • 1912
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Br 5192.90.10Off-site
  • What's in a name? : reflections of an irrepressible name collector / Paul Dickson.

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    • Springfield, Mass. : Merriam-Webster, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text PE1578.A2 D53 1996Off-site
  • Jin dai Zhongguo zhuan ming fan yi ci dian / Huang Guangyu bian.

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    • Chengdu : Sichuan ren min chu ban she, 2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text MLC-COff-site

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