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...essays by friends and colleagues, reflecting his own wide interests and the influence his work has had across the spectrum of linguistic and folklore scholarship.
David Hey's "The Son of the Widow" gives an account of name research, proceeding not from etymology but from geographical distribution, focusing on the name Widdowson. This turns out to be highly localised, so it may not be a generic "son of the widow" but rather stem from just one "widow's son" or, just possibly, from a rare personal name, Wido.
William Kirwin describes the compilation of the Dictionary of Newfoundland English, with particular attention to the choice of standard...
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