Date:    Tue, 24 Mar 1998 01:05:15 -0600
<br>From:    "Donald M. Lance"  engdl[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]SHOWME.MISSOURI.EDU 
<br>Subject: etymologies of surnames
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<br>I received this inquiry / request from Leslie Dunkling.  He does not
<br>subscribe to ans-l at present, so please respond directly to him at
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<br>        Leslie Dunkling  106407.3560[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]compuserve.com 
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<br>He is hard at work on a book on surnames and would appreciate input asap.
<br>I think many of you on the list know Leslie.
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<br> I wonder whether you, your friends and colleagues, or (for example)
<br> fellow-members of the American Dialect Society, have done any research into
<br> your own family names. I am not concerned with genealogical data, only with
<br> onomastic research into what the names originally meant. I would very much
<br> like to hear of any such research, especially if it concerns names that
<br> originated in Britain. I would hope to mention it, with due
<br> acknowledgements,  in the Dictionary of Surnames I have been commissioned
<br> to prepare for HarperCollins. The dictionary is due to be published later
<br> this year and I shall be submitting the text in about three weeks, so there
<br> is a certain amount of urgency.
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<br>DMLance
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