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Surnames as a Science

Surnames as a Science

Ferguson, Robert

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Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1530964083
ISBN13: 9781530964086
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jul 4 2016
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.23 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
As some things that seem common, and even ignoble, to the naked eye, lose their meanness under the revelations of the microscope, so, many of our surnames that seem common and even vulgar at first sight, will be found, when their origin is adequately investigated, to be of high antiquity, and of unsuspected dignity. Clodd, for instance, might seem to be of boorish origin, and Clout to have been a dealer in old rags. But I claim for them that they are twin brothers, and etymologically the descendants of a Frankish king. Napp is not a name of distinguished sound, yet it is one that can take us back to that far-off time ere yet the history of England had begun, when, among the little kinglets on the old Saxon shore, Hnaf ruled the Hôcings. Moll, Betty, Nanny, and Pegg sound rather ignoble as the names of men, yet there is nothing of womanliness in their warlike origin.

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