Morecock, Fartwell, & Hoare

Morecock, Fartwell, & Hoare
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 269
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ISBN-10 : 9780312545352
ISBN-13 : 0312545355
Rating : 4/5 (355 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Morecock, Fartwell, & Hoare by : Russell Ash

Download or read book Morecock, Fartwell, & Hoare written by Russell Ash and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-11-10 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s a baby born every minute and each one has to be named. In this book, you’ll find an insanity of nomenclature that beggars belief. Russell Ash has trawled birth, marriage, and death certificates, phone books, and censuses going back centuries to compile a compendium of breathtakingly unlikely-but-true names. Why on earth would Mr. and Mrs. O’Shea name their son Rick? What were the Fants thinking when they named their child Elle? Or Mr. and Mrs. Royd, for that matter, when naming their daughter Emma? Or how about Everard Cock, Page Turner, or Sally Forth? In this painstakingly researched, utterly true, riotously entertaining collection, readers will discover real-life examples of some of the most unusual, crude, and shocking names ever, presenting a laugh-out-loud overview of eccentricity through the ages.


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