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A Commodity of Good Names

on BBC Radio 3

by RANDOLPH QUIRK , Quain Professor of English in the University of London
' I would to God thou and I knew,' said Falstaff to Prince Hal, ' where a commodity of good names were to be bought.' Professor Quirk asks whether such can be bought in the recently published BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names 1

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