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As with place-names , a wide background of reading and an enduring love of language is needed for the study of surnames , possibly even more so , for in twentieth-century England the population is made up of people from many lands , many languages , social attitudes , cultures and customs , all of which -- since the first coining of surnames -- have <enlarged> the vocabulary of words from which patronymics and other additional gnomen ( early name ) forms are drawn .