WHAT'S IN A PSEUDONYM?

The Boston Globe | February 1, 2004| | Copyright

ADRIAN ROOM, a self-described "onomastician," or student of the origin and form of names, is the author of some 40 reference books, including dictionaries of coin names, astronomical names, and streetnames. But his crowning achievement has got to be the "Dictionary of Pseudonyms" (McFarland), which has just been republished in a revised, much-enlarged 4th edition. The new version boasts almost 11,000 screen names, stage names, noms de guerre and plume, handles, sobriquets, and monikers - from "Eight is Enough" TV star Willy Aames (who changed his last name from Upton to ensure a place at the ...

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