Q, sorry I don't know that book. I've tried to refrain from buying any more name books. As you might imagine, the ones I like the most for 'standard' European/Hebrew names are older [pre 1980s].

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Le Scaramouche, I believe that you were probably talking about the fact that we don't pronounce these names the same as Arabic speaking people, but your succient comment "Arabic names used by African Americans seem to lose much of the guttural quality" hit my funny bone. I think it was the similarity between the word "gutteral" and "gutter". My first reaction was the saying popularized by the book "The Virginian" -"When you say that- smile."

[Maybe you have to have been there to see the humor in this.]