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Among the more incredible explanations (as recorded by Adrian Room, A Dictionary of True Etymologies) are a derivation from ablution or luliana [ Daily Telegraph , 13 September 1968] and even from hallelujah, as prompted by a caption to a cartoon by Du Maurier in Punch [22 June 1895], which read Now we'll begin again at the Hallelujah, and please linger longer on the lu!
It is hard to see what has got into the people at Cassell's, for here is another book--this time a superior one--on which they have practised their onomancy: the original title (1992) was Brewer's Names . At least they have not taken to changing the names of the authors of these books, and this one bears that of the estimable lexicographer and onomastician, Adrian Room.
If one likes this sort of thing, there is no keeping him down, I suppose, and if one must have a collection of dedications, I suppose it ought to be Adrian Room's.
Although the jacket copy is appropriately dignified, twenty lashes to whoever wrote the release accompanying the book, which cites its appeal to “trivia buffs and curiosity seekers,” rather a down-market crowed compared to the higher echelons of literati to whom Adrian Room's books usually appeal.
Adrian Room, a well-known and proficient lexicographer and compiler of all sorts of collectables has produced a book that some might find enormously entertaining, or useful, or both, but which I find somewhat tedious.