Adrian Room
Adrian Richard West Room (27 September 1933, Melksham – 6 November 2010, Stamford, Lincolnshire) was a British toponymist and onomastician, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a prolific author of reference works relating primarily to the origins of words and place-names.Between 1952 and 1979, Room served in the Royal Naval Reserve, Special Branch, retiring as a lieutenant commander. Before becoming a full-time author, he was employed at King's College School, Cambridge, where he taught modern languages and was a senior house master. He later, until 1984, worked as a senior lecturer in Russian for the Ministry of Defence. Provided by Wikipedia
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Naming names : stories of pseudonyms and name changes with a who's who / by Room, Adrian
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Dictionary of trade name origins / by Room, Adrian
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Room's Classical dictionary : the origins of the names of characters in classical mythology / by Room, Adrian
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Dictionary of changes in meaning / by Room, Adrian
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Dictionary of confusing words and meanings / by Room, Adrian
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NTC's Classical dictionary : the origins of the names of characters in classical mythology / by Room, Adrian
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Brewer's dictionary of modern phrase & fable /
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