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Inevitably, one compares the main entries with those in similar recent works, such as Leslie Dunkling and William Gosling's Everyman's Dictionary of First Names (1983) and Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges' A Dictionary of First Names (1990).
What I missed in Mr. Dunkling's remarks is mention of a major innovation in this dictionary: nesting.
(As their role models Dunkling and Gosling prefer the popular actresses Susan Hayward, Susan Hampshire, and Susan Strasberg, while Hanks and Hodges instance no individual Susan at all, literary or otherwise.)
To David L. Gold's comments [XVIII, 1] on Leslie Dunkling's review of A Dictionary of Surnames [XVII, 4, 11] I would like to add one remark: not only is the list of the author's personal acknowledgments far longer than their bibliography of printed sources consulted (as Gold notes), but even if a certain work appears in the bibliography, that does not necessarily mean they relied on it.
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