The Perfect Name for Your Baby by Loreto Todd

The Perfect Name for Your Baby by Loreto Todd

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Zusammenfassung

A powerful and essential guide from a world authority on names. Incorporates history, meanings and significance.

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The Perfect Name for Your Baby by Loreto Todd

The name you choose for your baby will be the one they hold for life. This book presents over 2500 possible choices - names from around the world and from different cultures.
Loreto Todd is Professor of English at the University of Ulster, Coleraine. Born in Northern Ireland, she attended Queen's University, Belfast where her classmates included poet Seamus Heaney and writer Seamus Deane. She worked in England for many years, and was director of the programme of World English Research at the University of Leeds, England. She has travelled extensively and lectured in Africa, America (North and South), Asia (India and Singapore), Australia (Brisbane and Sydney), the Caribbean and the Pacific (Hawaii, Solomans, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea). She has written 30 books, over 80 articles and chapters in books; over 100 reviews, short papers and has edited several journals. During her travels, she has amassed a collection of texts, as well as audio and audio-visual recordings, from around the world. These total in excess of 12 million words and include: Conversations; Descriptions of language choice and use; Oral and written literature. She is currently working on this archive material and translating the Pidgin and Creole texts.
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9781847170088
ISBN 10 1847170080
Titel The Perfect Name for Your Baby
Autor Loreto Todd
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag O'Brien Press Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2008-04-11
Seitenanzahl 400
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