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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778241803321

Autore

Gooden Philip

Titolo

Name dropping? : a no-nonsense guide to the use of names in everyday language / / Philip Gooden

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, , 2006

ISBN

1-281-08861-7

9786611088613

1-4081-0324-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

422

Soggetti

Eponyms

Names, Personal

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; TITLEPAGE; COPYRIGHT; INTRODUCTION; A to Z; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I , J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q,R; S; T; U,V; W,Y,Z; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Ever had a Hitchcockian experience (in the shower perhaps?!) or met someone with a distinctly Ortonesque outlook on life? There are hundreds of words derived from real people who are famous - or infamous - enough to give their stamp to a movement, a way of thinking or acting, a style or even a mood.