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When you open a British or American telephone directry and look at a list of names, you will find that there is a huge variety of names, that many are names of places or occupations,
and that many more are not English, but French, Scottish, Russian, Chinese and of other foreign origin.
Many names in English, as in other languages, have some kind of meaning and have been handed down from generation to generation.
People in general usually take their name-giving very seriously.
It is of great interest to study how people's names are derived, that is, their etymological development, and the study of names will tell us something about how English-speaking people lived and thought.
Names often represent the history of a family, and are sometimes influenced by historical events.
People in Anglo-Saxon England had certain principles in naming their chileren.
Most names consisted of two elements like Alf-red and Ed-mond, etc., and these elements were repeated and varied among family members.
After the Norman Conquest, biblical names became popular, like Jhon, Mary, Peter, and so on.
Such names are by far the commonest even now.Potter, S. explained in detail in his famous book Our Language how people's names are derived, and divided British surnames into four major categories; patronymic, occupational, descriptive, and local.
Patronymic names are fathers' names with the suffix -son: Williamson is son of William, and Dickinson is son of Richard.
Mac- is a Gaelic prefix corresponding to -son.
McDonald is MacDonald (son of Donald) and Macgregor is Mac-Greggs (son of Greggs).
Occupational names are quite familiar to us: Butcher, Carpenter, Shepherd, Taylor, and so on.
Descriptive names are associsted with man's physical characteristics, for example, Little, Black, Strong, Short, and so on, and may be taken literally.
Finally, local names are closely related to place names, and literally represent certain local characteristic.
Examples are Moorehouse, Castleton, Whitacre.
Thus the study of people's names tells us something of how their ancestors lived in the past and how they looked on human life.
Jack and Maureen decided not to have any more child.
But then, in April 1995, Jack was called to Oklahoma City
to assist in the rescue efforts after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building.
He had never seen so many children perish at one time.
"He didn't talk a lot about the devastation in Oklahoma," Maureen said,
"but that's how he was - he wasn't a man of many words."
But Jack did start talking about having another baby. The Oklahoma
bombing had put autism in a different light.
The way he saw it, Maureen said, was that "if it happens it happens." Life is what it is. Autism
isn't the worst thing in the world.
and that many more are not English, but French, Scottish, Russian, Chinese and of other foreign origin.
Many names in English, as in other languages, have some kind of meaning and have been handed down from generation to generation.
People in general usually take their name-giving very seriously.
It is of great interest to study how people's names are derived, that is, their etymological development, and the study of names will tell us something about how English-speaking people lived and thought.
Names often represent the history of a family, and are sometimes influenced by historical events.
People in Anglo-Saxon England had certain principles in naming their chileren.
Most names consisted of two elements like Alf-red and Ed-mond, etc., and these elements were repeated and varied among family members.
After the Norman Conquest, biblical names became popular, like Jhon, Mary, Peter, and so on.
Such names are by far the commonest even now.Potter, S. explained in detail in his famous book Our Language how people's names are derived, and divided British surnames into four major categories; patronymic, occupational, descriptive, and local.
Patronymic names are fathers' names with the suffix -son: Williamson is son of William, and Dickinson is son of Richard.
Mac- is a Gaelic prefix corresponding to -son.
McDonald is MacDonald (son of Donald) and Macgregor is Mac-Greggs (son of Greggs).
Occupational names are quite familiar to us: Butcher, Carpenter, Shepherd, Taylor, and so on.
Descriptive names are associsted with man's physical characteristics, for example, Little, Black, Strong, Short, and so on, and may be taken literally.
Finally, local names are closely related to place names, and literally represent certain local characteristic.
Examples are Moorehouse, Castleton, Whitacre.
Thus the study of people's names tells us something of how their ancestors lived in the past and how they looked on human life.
Jack and Maureen decided not to have any more child.
But then, in April 1995, Jack was called to Oklahoma City
to assist in the rescue efforts after the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building.
He had never seen so many children perish at one time.
"He didn't talk a lot about the devastation in Oklahoma," Maureen said,
"but that's how he was - he wasn't a man of many words."
But Jack did start talking about having another baby. The Oklahoma
bombing had put autism in a different light.
The way he saw it, Maureen said, was that "if it happens it happens." Life is what it is. Autism
isn't the worst thing in the world.
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