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Author Cottle, Basil, author

Title The Penguin dictionary of surnames / Basil Cottle
Edition Second edition
Published Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England : Penguin, 1978
London ; New York : Penguin Reference, 1978
©1978

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Description 443 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm
regular print
Series Penguin reference books
Penguin reference books.
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 Bibliography: p. 443-[444]
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-[444])
Subject Genealogy.
Names, Personal -- Great Britain -- Dictionaries.
Names, Personal -- Dictionaries.
Names, Personal -- Great Britain.
Names, Personal.
Genre/Form Dictionaries.
LC no. 79307259
ISBN 014051032X
9780140510324
Other Titles Dictionary of surnames
Surnames
Dictionary of surnames