10
ALTERNATIVE ORIGINS 11
NAMES DESIRABLE OR UNDESIRABLE 13
CHAPTER II. A MEDIEVAL ROLL 15
LONDON JURYMEN 16
MIDDLESEX JURYMEN 23
STEEPLE CLAYDON COTTAGERS 25
CHAPTER III. SPELLING AND SOUND 29
VARIANT SPELLINGS 30
DIALECTIC VARIANTS 32
APHESIS 33
EPITHESIS AND ASSIMILATION 35
METATHESIS 36
BABY PHONETICS 37
CHAPTER IV. BROWN, JONES, AND ROBINSON 40
OCCUPATIVE NAMES 40
THE DISTRIBUTION OF NAMES 42
CHAPTER V. THE ABSORPTION OF FOREIGN NAMES 44
THE HUGUENOTS 44
PERVERSIONS OF FOREIGN NAMES 46
JEWISH NAMES 48
CHAPTER VI. TOM, DICK AND HARRY 49
MEDIEVAL FONT-NAMES 49
THE COMMONEST FONT-NAMES 50
FASHIONS IN FONT-NAMES 52
DERIVATIVES OF FONT-NAMES 53
THE SUFFIX -COCK 55
CELTIC NAMES 56
CHAPTER VII. GODERIC AND GODIVA 57
FORMATION OF ANGLO-SAXON NAMES 57
ANGLO-SAXON NICKNAMES 59
ANGLO-SAXON SURVIVALS 61
MONOSYLLABIC NAMES 62
"HIDEOUS NAMES" 63
CHAPTER VIII. PALADINS AND HEROES 65
THE ROUND TABLE 66
THE CHANSONS DE GESTE 68
ANTIQUE NAMES 69
CHAPTER IX. THE BIBLE AND THE CALENDAR 70
OLD TESTAMENT NAMES 70
NEW TESTAMEN
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