Lists of Names


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Baby Names Now


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A guide to baby names and their meanings draws on research from a variety of sources.




Geographical Names for Military Maps


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"Outlines the policy of the Army Map Service in the treatment of place names on military maps. It supersedes the First Edition of AMS Memorandum 453 dated 2 February 1943 and two supplements to it dated 13 May 1943 and 14 July 1943."--Scope (page 1).







Names New and Old


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These essays tell the story of geographic, literary, personal and various other types of names. Information on names is offered chronologically from 1391 up to the present time and the 'hip-lit' names used in Bret Easton Ellis's Less than Zero. There are also technical studies, such as the names of drugs in the world of street-Spanish, and the sound patterns of proper names in the English language.