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101Tennet — Perhaps as many as 15% of all surnames derive from some form of metonymic or nickname. In this case Tennet is a developed patronymic form of the Latin Tenere and translates as Little Tenere or son of Tenere , Quite why anybody should be called… …
102Weond — Perhaps as many as thirty percent of all modern surnames form variants of an original base name, and particularly so if the spelling is now meaningless in any known language. This definitely is the case with Weond , a name not apparently recorded …
103Whiskerd — Perhaps not surprisingly, there are a number of alternative spellings of this unusual name, including the Scottish Wishart . However spelt, the name has nothing to do with Whiskers it is not in anyway a nickname, but is of Norse Viking… …
104Pindar — Perhaps the greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece (died ca. 438 B.C.), whose work was much read in Byzantium (q.v.). Those who wrote commentaries on Pindar included Eustathios of Thessalonike (q.v.) …
105ANANDA — (?) perhaps the best known of the BUDDHA S DISCIPLES and a cousin of the Buddha. His name means Joy. He lived with the Buddha for twenty five years as his personal attendant and was entrusted by the Buddha with the task of teaching doctrine.… …
106mayhap — perhaps Forthright s Forsoothery …
107peradventure — perhaps; possibly; by adventure; by chance Forthright s Forsoothery …
108data — Perhaps no other word better illustrates the extent to which questions of usage are often largely a matter of fashion. In Latin, data is of course a plural, and until fairly recent times virtually all authorities insisted, often quite… …
109new — Perhaps no word appears superfluously in text more often than new, as in each of these examples: New chairman named at Weir Group (Financial Times headline); Yet another Steven Spielberg film seems poised to set new records at the box office… …
110thoure — perhaps for ‘þo were.’ RG. 534, sed qu? …
