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Mercy Joy
8/2/2007, 4:14 PM
what's the most accurate baby name book for meanings?
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Cleveland Kent Evans
(clevelandkentevans)
8/2/2007, 4:37 PM
Nothing is perfect, but
A Dictionary of First Names
by Hanks, Hardcastle, and Hodges would be one of the best.
They still try to explain
Delbert
as a modern invention, though, when it is a 19th-century American short form of
Adelbert
. :)
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