Cassell Dictionary of Proper Names (Language reference) - Hardcover

Room, Adrian

 
9780304344475: Cassell Dictionary of Proper Names (Language reference)

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Discusses the sources and meanings of the proper names of places, people, literary characters, musical groups, holidays, and sports teams

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Adrian Room is an established writer of reference books, mainly on the origins of words and names. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the English Place-Name Society and American Name Society. He was Senior Lecturer in Russian with the Ministry of Defence until 1984, when he took up full-time writing.

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