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The pedagogical pretensions of encyclopedic dictionaries must be taken with a grain of salt, though their skewing may be a fair reflection of the limited knowledge that speech communities have of the worthies of whom other speech communities boast.
These worthies lured the red-ink-wary Dole into espousing an across-the-board 15 percent tax-rate cut that even the average voter (not to mention most of Wall Street) could spot right off as a budget buster.
In it, he attacked vigorously three worthies well-known for their opinions about English--William Savage Landor, Thomas De Quincey, and (lengthily) Richard Grant White.
One result of this growth was an abundance of new streets that needed names; the worthies of the Risorgimento largely filled the bill.
New bureaucratic functionaries now had to keep track of individuals they might never meet, and they (and other name-givers, such as priests and other local worthies) followed a few simple rules for distinguishing one Giovanni from another.