Note 36 — Chapter IX · THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHILD ON LINGUISTIC DEVELOPMENT
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Karl Sundén, in his diligent and painstaking book on Elliptical Words in Modern English (Upsala, 1904) [i.e. clipped proper names, for common names are not treated in the long lists given], mentions only two examples of surnames in which the final part is kept (Bart for Islebart, Piggy for Guineapig, from obscure novels), though he has scores of examples in which the beginning is preserved.