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Excerpt from Personal Names and Surnames: Of the Town of Inverness
The subject of personal names, and especially of surnames, has been considerably eschewed by trained philologists, and has, consequently, fallen too much into the hands of unscientific investigators, whose work, though important historically, is yet marred by bizarre etymologies and other perversities. The reason for this is obvious: these names, unlike the words in the ordinary vocabulary of a language, which are subject to general laws, nearly always depend on individual and local history, being subject to local caprices and pet changes which might well make a severe scientist in philology avoid them. Take, for instance, a name like Eliza beth: it begins by itself being a mild transforma tion of the Hebrew Elisheba, God of the Oath, and proceeds to develop into Isabella. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
