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Margaret Petherbridge Farrar (March 23, 1897 – June 11, 1984) was an American journalist and the first crossword puzzle editor for The New York Times (1942–1968). Creator of many of the rules of modern crossword design, she compiled and edited a long-running series of crossword puzzle books – including the first book of any kind that Simon & Schuster published (1924). [1]
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...
Surnames of English origin. This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Surnames of British Isles origin . It includes Surnames of British Isles origin that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
Newman is a surname of Germanic Anglo-Saxon origins. Newman is the modern English form of the name used in Great Britain and among people of British ancestry around the world (as is 'Numan') , while Neumann (with variant spellings) is used in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria, and to some degree in Netherlands and Belgium. [1]
The earliest documented appearance of the surname is the Register of Freemen of York, 1410–1411 with Johannes Ferror, a littestar (dyer of wool or lister, litster). [5] [6] Due to varying levels of literacy and regional dialects, the name could be written as Farrar, Pharo, Farra, Ferrar, Farrer, Ferrers, or Farrow.
Neumann (pronounced ⓘ) is a German surname, with its origins in the pre-7th-century (Old English) word neowe meaning "new", with mann, meaning man. [1] The English form of the name is Newman . Von Neumann is a variant of the name, and alternative spellings include Neuman , Naumann(s) , Nauman , Neiman , [ 2 ] and Nyeman .
Cornell is an English name derived from a shortened form of Cornwall, Cornwell or Cornhill, [1] and a Dutch Surname, which derives from the Latin Cornelius. Sometimes the name is an Americanized form of the Czech Kornel, or the German and Swedish Kornell.
Ethnonymic surnames are surnames or bynames that originate from ethnonyms.They may originate from nicknames based on the descent of a person from a given ethnic group. Other reasons could be that a person came to a particular place from the area with different ethnic prevalence, from owing a property in such area, or had a considerable contact with persons or area of other ethnicity.