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An ideal gift book with personality and charm, Bertha Venation is a legendary editor's lifetime collection of the amazing names of actual people, with his own inimitable wit, commentary, and stories.Roger Gotobed...Ida Slaptor...Formica Dinette...Honeysuckle Weeks...Gay Beach...Sappho Clissit...Dimple MysteryThis colorful collection of extraordinary names, sure to please every lover of miscellany, features: Celebrity Children, Weirdest Names in Sports, Aptly Named Professionals, Literary Highlights, Funny Name Marriages, Places and Houses with Strange Names, Long and Meaningless Names, and…
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5 editions- Ebook · English · 2007HarperCollins · 9780061144301
- Other · English · 2009Profile Books Limited · 9781861979452
- Other · English · 2007HarperCollins Publishers · 9780060817169
- Other · English · 2007Profile Books Limited · 9781861977175
- Other · English · 2007Harper · 176 pages · 9780060817152
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