The Art of Literary Nomenclature

ORIGIN:
Anglo-Saxon last name / place name, meaning “village on the moor”.

VARIATIONS and NICKNAMES:
Mort, Mortie, Morty.

REFERENCES IN LITERATURE:
– Morton Dykes, a sometime-suitor of one of the Gilbreth girls in Belles on Their Toes (1950), written by Frank Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey.

Tagged: 1950s, English, M

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