Flat-Nose, Stocky and Beautugly
James Davidson: Greek Names, 23 September 2010
A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names. Vol. V.A Coastal Asia Minor: Pontos to Ionia
edited by T. Corsten.
Oxford, 496 pp., £125, March 2010,978 0 19 956743 0 Show More
edited by T. Corsten.
Oxford, 496 pp., £125, March 2010,
“... and census enumerators might very well be supplemented by a highly personalised nickname – Old Tom, Long Tom, Short Tom, or even, according to Rev. Alfred Easther, a 19th-century Yorkshire dialectologist, Wantem, Blackcop and Muddlinpin – it might better be described as an outbreak ... ”