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Hanks and Hodges totally ignore such American influence, though the evidence for it is overwhelming.
For data that are not normally distributed, Steel's Many-one Rank Test can be much more efficient (Hodges and Lehmann, 1956).
Hanks and Hodges say that it is an English name of unknown origin but hint that it may be an anglicization of Welsh Baughan (found also as Vaughan ), a diminutive of Baugh , ultimately from bach `little.
Hanks and Hodges include Hrothgar , for instance, because it occurs in Beowulf and was borne by a vice-chancellor of Oxford University at the turn of the century.
I went to high school--a small school with only a minority of Italians--with a girl named Pochintesta ( poco little, in in, testa head), another named Zucchi (a plural form of zucca squash, or, colloquially, head; Hanks and Hodges say this name was often given to a person of scarce intelligence, as in pumpkinhead), one boy named Chiappa (buttock), and another named Chiappinelli (which may be either an extended diminutive of Chiappa or the diminutive of chiappino , which Battaglia defines as a type of ape).