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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.
Another group of names--a group Hanks and Hodges call imperative surnames, or names formed by the joining of a verb-stem and a noun--displays an especially playful method of Italian scurrility.
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).
Hanks and Hodges and de Felice say that most of these nicknames could also be bestowed ironically.
Surname interpretation mainly requires good philological skills, which Hanks and Hodges supply.