ANSTHRLD - Name Question (fwd)
Charlene Charette
charlene at flash.net
Mon May 1 12:27:36 PDT 2000
tmcd at jump.net wrote:
> Kendall Johnson <avalon at arn.net> wrote to me personally, but I suspect
> meant it for the list:
> > Can someone tell me on what page William is listed in Withycombe's
> > Dictionary of christian names.
>
> Mr. Pedantic Person notes that it's _The Oxford Dictionary of English
> Christian Names_. It's a miracle nobody has soundly *THWAPPED*
> Mr. Pedantic Person for a while.
To get even more persnickety...
Most editions are "The Oxford Dictionary of English Christian names."
There's a 1988 reprint of the 3rd edition (1977) entitled "The Concise
Dictionary of English Christian Names."
--Perronnelle
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes
longer. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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