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What’s in a name?
By Kim Knox/Rees | May 6, 2009
I love this book. Seriously. It’s sitting on the back of my couch (yes, I’m seriously running out of room for my books) no more than a foot away. I like to keep it close… *grin*
I know that there are a tonne of baby naming sites and that ones like Behind the Name are very comprehensive. I go to these sites, sometimes, especially when I want something more in depth (usually with a name I’ve found in this book, lol ).
What this book does for me is saves my time and my sanity. You know what the web does, it’s a black hole, adept at sucking you in. One minute, you’re hunting for a last name for your hero and before you know it you’ve spent the past half hour laughing your arse off at Eddie Izzard on You Tube…and your hero still doesn’t have a last name. 
So I flick and drop into pages with Norse names, or Russian, or stick a pin in the huge index of names at the back. It’s become the starting point for finding out who my characters are.
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