Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Frequently Bought Together
Product details
|
More About the Author
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
Sell a Digital Version of This Book in the Kindle Store
If you are a publisher or author and hold the digital rights to a book, you can sell a digital version of it in our Kindle Store.
Learn more
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
There are no customer reviews yet on Amazon.co.uk.
5 star
4 star
3 star
2 star
1 star
Most Helpful Customer Reviews on Amazon.com (beta)
Amazon.com:
3 reviews
8 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Terribly inaccurate.
10 Jan 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
If you at all care about what a name really means, don't look here. Normally I'd say that the best place to get a good meaning is the Oxford Dictionary of First Names, but almost all other name books I've seen are more accurate than this one, which seems to make up meanings to make names seem more attractive when the original meaning is not the most becoming- for example, does this book mention that Addison means "son of Adam," or that it's the name of a disease? No, they say it means "awesome." Names are composed of linguistic elements the same way words are, so just like you can't decide that the word "flower" means "rotten stump" one day and have everyone agree with you, you can't arbitrarily assign meanings to names.
Beyond the blaring inaccuracies in this volume, the author needs to look up the meaning of the word "unique" in the dictionary.
There is a glut of baby name books on the market, and this is at the bottom of the heap for quality. I'd recommend The Baby Name Wizard for style ideas and the Oxford Dictionary of First Names if you care about meaning or usage. Also, Rosenkrantz and Satran's latest, The Baby Name Bible, is pretty good and informative, and supposedly contains over 50,000 names.
Beyond the blaring inaccuracies in this volume, the author needs to look up the meaning of the word "unique" in the dictionary.
There is a glut of baby name books on the market, and this is at the bottom of the heap for quality. I'd recommend The Baby Name Wizard for style ideas and the Oxford Dictionary of First Names if you care about meaning or usage. Also, Rosenkrantz and Satran's latest, The Baby Name Bible, is pretty good and informative, and supposedly contains over 50,000 names.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
worthy of 0 stars
13 Jun 2011
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This book is terrible. Like a previous reviewer mentioned, the name meaning are completely made up. The number of misspellings is ludicrous. The same exact name will be posted multiple times in a row. In fact I'd say 25% of the "60,000" names in this book are duplicates. I will never have husband pick out a book for me again.
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
The Best Baby Name Book available today!
29 April 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
This is a fabulous, fun, and well-researched baby name book. Unfortunately, one sour-grapes review appears that was written by another babyname book author--this is lame, needless to say.
A great deal of hard work went into this book--and it shows! Parents across the U.S. are using this book and reporting great results in finding names they love!
A great deal of hard work went into this book--and it shows! Parents across the U.S. are using this book and reporting great results in finding names they love!
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
|
