Surnames

;CD:LDICDCOSURNAMESBY THE SAME AUTHORAN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARYOF MODERN ENGLISHTHE ROMANCE OF WORDSA book on the sources of the EnglishpopularVocabularyEdition{ThirdTHE ROMANCE OF NAMESTells how Surnames came into andbeing, givesof the author's method inexplanations etymologicalwith them.dealingEdition[SecondSURNAMESBY ERNEST M.A.WEEKLEY,"Indeed, there is a luck inwoundy names, sirs,And a main an a man knewmystery, whereTo vind it."Tale a(BEN JONSON, Tub, iv.of a.)b 9LONDONJOHN ALBEMARLEMURRAY, W.STREET,1917MFIRST EDITION . . . 1916September . .SECOND July 1917RESERVEDALL RIGHTSPREFACETHE volumenow offered to thosewho werekind enoughto be interested in Romance Names is a secondmy ofoffshoot of the Surnames onDictionary of EnglishItwhich I have been for some differsengaged years.several from the formerin booklet. The RomancewaysNames was an at a of theof attempt general surveylike all such first it containedsubject, and, attempts,1a inaccuracies and dubious statementsgood manyI tried to later Itof which have editions. madepurgeno to deal with the curiosities ofspecial attemptsurname and the toetymology, temptation explorewas resisted.by-ways firmlyThe volume treats much morepresent completely,and hence more of certain of sur-ponderously, groupsnames which I have with someinvestigated approachto It includes athoroughness. very large proportion8of names of the ofinterest,etymological majority1 Sometimes due to definite ...