This text reveals the origins and meanings of thousands of familiar names, from personal to place names, and from mythological characters to astronomical names. A guide to accents and pronunciation for some of the 80 languages used in the dictionary, from Afrikaans to Zyrian, is also included. This should be useful as a reference for anyone interested in the history and development of language.
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Adrian Room is an established writer of reference books, mainly on the origins of words and names. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the English Place-Name Society and American Name Society. He was Senior Lecturer in Russian with the Ministry of Defence until 1984, when he took up full-time writing.
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