Naming Your Baby: The Definitive Dictionary of First Names
by Julia Cresswell
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Manufacturer: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 929.4403
EAN: 9780713683134
ISBN: 0713683139
Label: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2007-11-05
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Studio: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
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Customer Rating:
Summary: not that great
Comment: i'm a dissenting voice here i'm afraid. i thought it was pretty limited on names, wrote little about them and was generally a lightweight effort. wish i hadn't bothered.
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Summary: Name that baby!
Comment: Choosing a good name is so hard, but then you have a lot of books to help and then finding the right book becomes bothersome and... Well, you get it. So I am very glad to have run across this one which has helped tremendously!!! It is the definitive guide! A great read. Another good one: You Know You're Pregnant When. Reflections on the Longest Nine Months of My Life.
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Summary: Happy customer
Comment: Very, very happy with this book. Spent ages looking at all the different titles then took a chance by ordering this one. Made the right decision. Format is fresh, easy to glance through or read in more detail depending on how much time you have. Plenty of names to choose from, modern, traditional, trendy, a few foreign names but not too many. Ideal for naming baby without having to trawl through crazy names or a multitude of American names. Within ten minutes of reading this i'd found a few good names. Perfect.
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Summary: Intelligent and entertaining
Comment: There are so, so many rubbish name books out there. This is one of a very few gems (the only other one I'd recommend is the Oxford Dictionary of First Names).
It's full of interesting, and accurate tidbits about the names, which the author sometimes groups together in themes - for example, Alfred and Aubrey might be talked about in the same entry because both have meanings about elves. This doesn't mean the names are hard to find, though, as they are all ordered alphabetically. Just don't be put off if some of them say "See 'X'"; it doesn't mean they've been lumped in with another name, but that they will be discussed with them. This gives the book an almost conversational feel, as if you were listening to someone really well-informed talk about names. The introduction, too, is very interesting and makes it obvious she has done her research (she even provides a bibliography). I really enjoyed reading it and haven't spotted a single factual inaccuracy of the kind that other name books are riddled with. The only strange thing is that there are lots of typos in my edition. It's a shame that such a good book clearly hasn't been proofread to do it justice.
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