Authors:F.K. & S. Hitching, S. Hitching,
Publisher: Clearfield
Keywords: surnames, english, giving, references, index, xviith, century, year, containe, printed, contained, registers, parishes, first
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0806301813
ISBN-13: 9780806301815

These two works, now reprinted for handy reference in a single volume, index over 40,000 references to surnames contained in the printed registers of English parishes during the years 1601 and 1602. While the two indexes themselves merely list the surname and the parish register(s) where it occurred in 1601 and 1602, and the location of the register at the time of original publication, researchers must realize that these reference are of considerable value inasmuch as the parish records to which they refer are nothing less than early 17th-century registers of baptisms, marriages, and bur

Author: Henry Hitching
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: english, words, life, secret
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2009-09-29
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0312428561
ISBN-13: 9780312428563

AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARThe Secret Life of Words is a wide-ranging account of the transplanted, stolen, bastardized words we’ve come to know as the English languag. It’s a history of English as a whole, and of the thousands of individual words, from more than 350 foreign tongues, that trickled in gradually over hundreds of years of trade, colonization, and diplomacy. Henry Hitchings narrates the story from the Norman Conquest to the present day, chronicling the English language as a living archive of human experience.A SAMPLE OF THE THOUSANDS OF STORIES BEHIND THE WORDS:• Al