All Those Wonderful Names: A Potpourri of People, Places, and ThingsCelebrates American names of every stripe, color and variety, highlighting the most amusing, fascinating and arcane. It features popular first names, common surnames (by national origin) and gossip on celebrities who've changed their names. The strangest, funniest, most descriptive or imaginative names parents have given their children are included plus realistic guidelines for naming your newborn. An entire chapter is devoted to placenames--towns, counties and cities in the U.S.--with the most common, strangest, and difficult to pronounce as well as local legends about town names. You'll also find information on names of tropical storms, shortest and longest movie titles, song titles, pet names, how authors name their characters and much more. |
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... explorers , the landmass was at first named New Holland . But the Dutch did not persist in settlement , and the English did . One of their explorers , Matthew Flinders , who had demonstrated that the landmass was indeed a separate ...
... explorers , the landmass was at first named New Holland . But the Dutch did not persist in settlement , and the English did . One of their explorers , Matthew Flinders , who had demonstrated that the landmass was indeed a separate ...
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... explorer John Frémont gave Winter Ridge , OR , its name because it seemed so much colder than nearby Summer Lake . California is usually thought of as a warm state , but it once held and perhaps still holds the championship for a cold ...
... explorer John Frémont gave Winter Ridge , OR , its name because it seemed so much colder than nearby Summer Lake . California is usually thought of as a warm state , but it once held and perhaps still holds the championship for a cold ...
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... explorer and pioneer . John Brown Real ( 1800-1859 ) . American abolitionist leader who was executed . Buffalo Bill Real . Actual name William Frederick Cody ( 1846-1917 ) . Frontiersman and showman . Paul Bunyan Basically fictional ...
... explorer and pioneer . John Brown Real ( 1800-1859 ) . American abolitionist leader who was executed . Buffalo Bill Real . Actual name William Frederick Cody ( 1846-1917 ) . Frontiersman and showman . Paul Bunyan Basically fictional ...
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Chapter | 7 |
TraditionalModern Names for Girls | 14 |
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