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Names -- Pronunciation

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• Names, Personal -- Pronunciation

• Pronunciation of names

• The ABC Book: A Pronunciation Guide (current electronic edition), by Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (HTML at loc.gov)

• Say How? A Pronunciation Guide to Names of Public Figures (current electronic edition), by Library of Congress National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (HTML at loc.gov)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Egyptian Titles of the Middle Kingdom: A Supplement to Wm. Ward's Index (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1985), by Henry George Fischer (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Chinese Reader's Manual: A Handbook of Biographical, Historical, Mythological, and General Literary Reference (reprinted from the edition of 1874; London: Probsthain and Co.; Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1910), by William Frederick Mayers (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arthurian Name Dictionary (c2000), by Christopher W. Bruce (HTML at Celtic Twilight)

• The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (second edition; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921), by H. L. Mencken (HTML at Bartleby)
• The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by H. L. Mencken (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Yurok Geography (offprint from University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology; Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1920), by T. T. Waterman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Georgia Place-Names (third edition, 1999), by Kenneth K. Krakow (PDF files at kenkrakow.com)

• Archaeological Atlas of Michigan (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1931), by W. B. Hinsdale, illust. by Edward J. Stevens (page images at HathiTrust)

• Minnesota Geographic Names: Their Origin and Historic Significance (St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1920), by Warren Upham (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Nebraska Place-Names (1925), by Lilian Linder Fitzpatrick
  • PDF at unl.edu
  • HTML at usgennet.org

• A Bibliographical and Historical Essay on the Dutch Books and Pamphlets Relating to New-Netherland, and to the Dutch West-India Company and to its Possessions in Brazil, Angola, etc.; As Also on the Maps, Charts, etc., of New-Netherland (2 parts (second part is A List of the Maps and the Charts of New-Netherland) in 1 volume; originally published 1854-1867), by G. M. Asher, illust. by Nicolaes Visscher
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 1960 reprint: page images at HathiTrust

• The Indian Place-Names on Long Island and Islands Adjacent, With Their Probable Significations (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by William Wallace Tooker, ed. by Alexander Francis Chamberlain
  • multiple formats at arcchive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• On the Origin of the Names of Places in Monroe County, New York (Scottsville, NY: I. Van Hooser, printer, 1911), by Franklin Hanford (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Oregon Geographic Names (third edition; Portland, OR: Pub. by Binfords and Mort for the Oregon Historical Society, 1952), by Lewis A. McArthur (page images at HathiTrust)

• American Indian Place Names in Rhode Island, Past and Present, by Francis Joseph O'Brien (HTML at rootsweb.com)

• Some Powhatan Names (reprinted from the American Anthropologist, 1904), by William Wallace Tooker
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • as originally published in the journal; multiple formats at archive.org

• West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains (Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press, c1945), by Hamill Kenny (page images at HathiTrust)

• The History of Fond du Lac County, As Told by its Place-Names (1976), by Ruth Shaw Worthing (page images at Wisconsin)

• Wood County Place Names (1970), by Robert S. Rudolph (PDF at mcmillanlibrary.org)

• Verzeichniss und Erklärung Amerikanischer Historischer, Geographischer und Politischer Bei-, Spitz- und Spott-Namen (Surnames and Nicknames) (in German; Hoboken, NJ: H. D. Gerdts, 1869), by W. Mussehl (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by H. L. Mencken (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (second edition; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921), by H. L. Mencken (HTML at Bartleby)

• Verzeichniss und Erklärung Amerikanischer Historischer, Geographischer und Politischer Bei-, Spitz- und Spott-Namen (Surnames and Nicknames) (in German; Hoboken, NJ: H. D. Gerdts, 1869), by W. Mussehl (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Book of Names, Especially Relating to The Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley, ed. by Lou D. MacWethy (HTML at threerivershms.com)

• Babylonian Legal and Business Documents, From the Time of the First Dynasty of Babylon, Chiefly from Nippur, by A. Poebel (PDF at ETANA)
• Lettres et Contrats de l'Époque de la Première Dynastie Babylonienne (in Akkadian and Sumerian, with French notes; Paris; P. Geuthner, 1910), ed. by F. Thureau-Dangin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Records From Erech: Time of Nabonidus (555-538 B.C.) (Yale Oriental series, Babylonian texts v6; New Haven: Yale University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1920), ed. by Raymond Philip Dougherty
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Letters to Cassite Kings From the Temple Archives of Nippur, ed. by Hugo Radau (PDF at ETANA)

• On Etruscan and Libyan Names: A Comparative Study (reprinted from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1890), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)

• On Etruscan and Libyan Names: A Comparative Study (reprinted from Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1890), by Daniel G. Brinton (page images at HathiTrust)

• Arthurian Name Dictionary (c2000), by Christopher W. Bruce (HTML at Celtic Twilight)
• Geografijske Koordinate Ili Položaji Glavnijih Tačaka Dalmacije, Hrvatske, Slavonije i Dielomice Susjednih Zemalja, Imenito Bosne I Hercegovine, Istre, Kranjske Itd. (in Croatian; Zagreb: L. Hartman, 1890), contrib. by Gjuro Pilar
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • PDF at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Bocootawanaukes, or, The Fire Nation; With Historical and Ethnological Notes (Algonquian series #6; New York: F. P. Harper, 1901), by William Wallace Tooker (page images at HathiTrust)
• New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues: The First Ever Published on the Grammatical System (1884), by Joseph Laurent (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Geographical Names of the Kwakiutl Indians (Columbia University Contributions to Anthropology v20; New York: Columbia University Press, 1934), by Franz Boas (page images at HathiTrust)

• A List of Micmac Names of Places, Rivers, Etc., in Nova Scotia (Cambridge, MA: J. Wilson, 1892), by Elizabeth Frame (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Girls' Christian Names: Their History, Meaning and Association (reprint of 1900 London edition), by Helena Swan (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Girls' Christian Names: Their History, Meaning and Association (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1905), by Helena Swan (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Christian Names (2 volumes; London: Parker, Son, and Bourn, 1863), by Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
• Numerology Made Plain: The Science of Names and Numbers and the Law of Vibration (Chicago: Laird and Lee, c1926), by Ariel Yvon Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)

• An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language (based on the 1911 edition), by Alexander Macbain (text in the UK; 1 MB)

• Legal and Administrative Documents From Nippur (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1914), by Edward Chiera (PDF at ETANA)
• Sumerian Business and Administrative Documents From the Earliest Times to the Dynasty of Agade (Philadelphia: University Museum, 1915), by George A. Barton (PDF at ETANA)
• Historical Fragments (1922), by Leon Legrain (PDF at ETANA)
• Tablettes de Dréhem, Publiées avec Inventaire et Tables (in Sumerian with French notes; Paris; P. Geuthner, 1911), ed. by Henri de Genouillac
  • PDF at ETANA
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• A Dictionary of International Slurs (Ethnophaulisms); With a Supplementary Essay on Aspects of Ethnic Prejudice (Cambridge, MA: Sci-Art Publishers, c1944), by A. A. Roback (page images at HathiTrust)

• His Name Shall be Called Wonderful (Tulsa, OK: Kenneth Hagin Ministries, c1983), by Kenneth E. Hagin (PDF at rhema.org)

• The Indian Problem, From the Indian's Standpoint (1900), by Andrew J. Blackbird (page images at HathiTrust)

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