Melvin - What does it mean?
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* 1824 , The Life of Andrew Melville, W. Blackwood (1824), page 416:
transferred from the surname.
* 1976 , My Life on Trial: An Autobiography , Morrow, ISBN 0688030858, page 21:
melvin
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Melville always wrote his name Melvinus'' in Latin, and he is often called ''Melvin''''' in English. Hence some have concluded that '''''Melvin'' , and not ''Melville , was his proper name. But they are merely different modes of pronouncing the same family appellation.
- And for some reason, they called me Pete. My mother, who probably dug up the name Melvin from some romantic novel about Englishmen drinking tea, cringed at the "Pete".