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Naming Your Baby: The Definitive Dictionary of First Names | 
 enlarge | Author: Julia Cresswell
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2296
Media: Paperback
Edition: 2Rev Ed
Pages: 256
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0713683139
Dewey Decimal Number: 929.4403
EAN: 9780713683134
ASIN: 0713683139
Publication Date: November 5, 2007
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Happy customer July 25, 2008
S. Baker (England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
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.
Intelligent and entertaining April 18, 2008
Morena
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
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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