What's in a Surname?

Autori

• David McKie

Parametri

• 294 pagine
• 11 ore di lettura

• Famiglia
• Letteratura britannica
• Linguistica
• Saggistica
• Storia

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSurnames are much more than convenient identity tags; He considers some curious byways: the rise and fall of the multi-barrel surname and the Victorian reinvention of `embarrassing' surnames among them. He considers whether fortune favours those whose surnames come at the beginning of the alphabet.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2014

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