The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Romance of Names, by Ernest Weekley

Title: The Romance of Names

Author: Ernest Weekley

Release Date: January 20, 2008 [eBook #24374]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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THE ROMANCE OF NAMES

Advertising material that appeared at the start of the book

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

THE ROMANCE OF WORDS

"A book of extraordinary interest; those who do not yet realise how enthralling a subject word-history is could not do better
than sample its flavour in Mr. Weekley's admirable book."

— Spectator. Third Edition. 6s. net.

SURNAMES

"A study of the origin and significance of surnames, full of fascination for the general reader."

—Truth. Second Edition. 6s. net.

AN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF MODERN ENGLISH

"It is a very great pleasure to get a dictionary from Mr. Weekley. One knows from experience that
Mr. Weekley would contrive to avoid unnecessary dullness,
even if he were compiling a railway guide, but that he would also get the trains right."

— Mr. J. C. SQUIRE in The Observer. Crown 4to. £ 2 2s. net.

THIRD EDITION, REVISED

THE ROMANCE OF NAMES

BY

ERNEST WEEKLEY, M.A.

Professor of French and Head of the Modern Language Department

at University College, Nottingham;

Sometime Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge

London

JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

1922

FIRST EDITION January 1914

SECOND EDITION March 1914

THIRD EDITION May 1922

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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