About the Author

Patrick Hanks is a lexicographer and linguistic researcher, and is well known as a names specialist. Flavia Hodges is a philologist, lexicographer, and publisher. Kate Hardcastle is a lexicographer, and names specialist.

Reviews

`Review from previous edition I have returned to this dictionary again and again for sheer pleasure'
Jackie Wullschlager Financial Times
`full of anecdotal material as well as historical facts'
Glasgow Herald
`a colourful hunting ground and interesting reading'
Maternity and Mothercraft
`the best available work on the subject'
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