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CONTENTS

[THE ROMANCE OF NAMES]
[PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION]
[PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION]
[PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION]
CHAPTER I. [OF SURNAMES IN GENERAL]
[PERSONAL NAMES]
[NICKNAMES]
[MYTHICAL ETYMOLOGIES]
[ALTERNATIVE ORIGINS]
[NAMES DESIRABLE OR UNDESIRABLE]
CHAPTER II. [A MEDIEVAL ROLL]
[LONDON JURYMEN]
[MIDDLESEX JURYMEN]
[STEEPLE CLAYDON COTTAGERS]
CHAPTER III. [SPELLING AND SOUND]
[VARIANT SPELLINGS]
[DIALECTIC VARIANTS]
[APHESIS]
[EPITHESIS AND ASSIMILATION]
[METATHESIS]
[BABY PHONETICS]
CHAPTER IV. [BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON]
[OCCUPATIVE NAMES]
[THE DISTRIBUTION OF NAMES]
CHAPTER V. [THE ABSORPTION OF FOREIGN NAMES]
[THE HUGUENOTS]
[PERVERSIONS OF FOREIGN NAMES]
[JEWISH NAMES]
CHAPTER VI. [TOM, DICK AND HARRY]
[MEDIEVAL FONT-NAMES]
[THE COMMONEST FONT-NAMES]
[FASHIONS IN FONT-NAMES]
[DERIVATIVES OF FONT-NAMES]
[THE SUFFIX -COCK]
[CELTIC NAMES]
CHAPTER VII. [GODERIC AND GODIVA]
[FORMATION OF ANGLO-SAXON NAMES]
[ANGLO-SAXON NICKNAMES]
[ANGLO-SAXON SURVIVALS]
[MONOSYLLABIC NAMES]
["HIDEOUS NAMES"]
CHAPTER VIII. [PALADINS AND HEROES]
[THE ROUND TABLE]
[THE CHANSONS DE GESTE]
[ANTIQUE NAMES]
CHAPTER IX. [THE BIBLE AND THE CALENDAR]
[OLD TESTAMENT NAMES]
[NEW TESTAMENT NAMES]
[FEAST-DAYS]
[MONTH NAMES]
CHAPTER X. [METRONYMICS]
[FEMALE FONT-NAMES]
[DOUBTFUL CASES]
CHAPTER XI. [LOCAL SURNAMES]
[CLASSES OF LOCAL NAMES]
[COUNTIES AND TOWNS]
[NAMES PRECEDED BY DE]
CHAPTER XII. [SPOT NAMES]
[ELEMENTS OF PLACE-NAMES]
[HILL AND DALE]
[HILLS]
[WOODLAND AND PLAIN]
[FOREST CLEARINGS]
[MARSHES]
[WATER AND WATERSIDE]
[RIVERS]
[ISLANDS]
[TREE NAMES]
CHAPTER XIII. [THE HAUNTS OF MAN]
[SETTLEMENTS AND ENCLOSURES]
[HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS]
[WATER]
[BUILDINGS]
[DWELLINGS]
[SHOP SIGNS]
CHAPTER XIV. [NORMAN BLOOD]
[CORRUPT FORMS]
[TREE NAMES]
CHAPTER XV. [OF OCCUPATIVE NAMES]
[SOCIAL GRADES]
[ECCLESIASTICAL NAMES]
[NAMES IN -STER]
[MISSING TRADESMEN]
[SPELLING OF TRADE-NAMES]
[PHONETIC CHANGES]
[NAMES FROM WARES]
CHAPTER XVI. [A SPECIMEN PROBLEM: RUTTER]
CHAPTER XVII. [THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS]
[ECCLESIASTICAL NAMES]
[PILGRIMS]
CHAPTER XVIII. [TRADES AND CRAFTS]
[ARCHERY]
[CLOTHIERS]
[METAL WORKERS]
[SURNOMINAL SNOBBISHNESS]
CHAPTER XIX. [HODGE AND HIS FRIENDS]
[BUMBLEDOM]
[ITINERANT MERCHANTS]
CHAPTER XX. [OFFICIAL AND DOMESTIC]
[THE HOUSEHOLD]
CHAPTER XXI. [OF NICKNAMES IN GENERAL]
[FOREIGN NICKNAMES]
[KINSHIP]
[ABSTRACTS]
[COSTUME]
[PHYSICAL FEATURES]
[IMPRECATIONS]
[PHRASE-NAMES]
[MISCELLANEOUS]
CHAPTER XXII. [ADJECTIVAL NICKNAMES]
[ARCHAIC MEANINGS]
[DISGUISED SPELLINGS]
[FRENCH ADJECTIVES]
[COLOUR NAMES]
CHAPTER XXIII. [BIRDS, BEASTS, AND FISHES]
[BIRDS]
[HAWK NAMES]
[BEASTS]
[FISHES]
[SPECIAL FEATURES]
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[THE ROMANCE OF NAMES]

[PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION]

In preparing this revised edition I have been able to make use of much information conveyed to me by readers interested in the subject. The general arrangement of the book remains unchanged, but a certain number of statements have been modified, corrected, or suppressed. The study of our surnames has been mostly left to the amateur philologist, and many origins given by my predecessors as ascertained facts turn out, on investigation, to be unsupported by a shred of evidence. I cannot hope that this little book in its new form is free from error, but I feel that it has benefited by the years I have spent in research since its original publication. I would ask reader to accept it, not as a comprehensive treatise containing full information on any name that happens to occur in it, but as a general survey of the subject, and an attempt to indicate and exemplify the various ways in which our surnames have come into existence.

ERNEST WEEKLEY.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, NOTTINGHAM. April 1922.