The Penguin dictionary of surnames / Basil Cottle.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cottle, Basil, author.

Series:

Penguin reference books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Names, Personal--Great Britain.

Names, Personal.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

443, [1] pages ; 20 cm.

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Penguin Reference, 1978.

Summary:

"Mangled by centuries of mispronunciation, misunderstanding and misspelling, the surnames we have inherited are explained here by a philologist with an alert sense of humour. An analysis of English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish surnames, including the 100 commonest in the United Kingdom, the British Commonwealth and the United States. In this second edition Basil Cottle has added 4,000 new entries, concentrating on the rare and the complicated. Meanings are given, along with the language stock from which names derive and, wherever possible, their present distribution. Entries are assigned tot he four broad classes of surnames, i.e. those based on first-names (e.g. Jackson, Rhys, McAdam, O'Brien), localities (e.g. Baldock, Bewley, Kirk, Shaw), occupations (e.g. Caird, Fuller, Provost, Smith), and nicknames (e.g. Moneypenny, Kellogg, Gotobed, Wellbeloved)."--Back cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-444).

ISBN:

014051032X

9780140510324

OCLC:

25297281

Publisher Number:

780140510324 91101