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Dictionary of Trade Name Origins
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Dictionary of Trade Name Origins
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N.T.C.'s Dictionary of Trade Name Origins
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Mcgraw-Hill Contemporary, 1990
ISBN 10: 0844231908
ISBN 13: 9780844231907
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Condition: Fair. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:0844231908. Seller Inventory # 8605602
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NTC's Dictionary of Trade Name Origins
ISBN 10: 0844231908
ISBN 13: 9780844231907
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Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Revised Edition, Later Printing. [6], 217, [1] pages. Footnotes. Limited illustrations. Includes Introduction, Arrangement of the Entries; Dictionary; Appendix 1: Letters and suffixes; Appendix II: Computer-devised names; Appendix III: Unexplained names. Also includes Bibliography and Acknowledgments. The entries run in alphabetical order. Each entry opens with the trade name in heavy print, followed by its identity in brackets. The identity states the nature of the product, enterprise, or service, and gives the name of the manufacturer or owner of the named product. The linking word "by" here means that the product is manufactured by or marketed by the company that follows. Adrian Richard West Room (27 September 1933, Melksham - 6 November 2010, Stamford, Lincolnshire) was a British toponymist and onomastician, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a prolific author of reference works relating primarily to the origins of word and place-names. Between 1952 and 1979, Room served in the Royal Naval Reserve, Special Branch, retiring as a Lieutenant Commander. Before becoming a full-time author, he was employed at King's College School, Cambridge, where he taught modern languages and was a senior house master. He later, until 1984, worked as a senior lecturer in Russian for the Ministry of Defence. The author has tried to establish how a name came about, who devised it, and what the thinking was that lay behind the choice of a particular name. The stories behind more than 700 everyday trade names. Seller Inventory # 82453
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