Alice vs Elisha - What's the difference?
alice | elisha |
popular in England since the Middle Ages .
* 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer), :
* 1871 :
* 1968 (Kurt Vonnegut), Welcome to the Monkey House , Delacorte Press, page xiv:
(cryptography, physics) a placeholder name for the person or system that sends a message to another person or system conventionally known as Bob.
(Alice Springs), Australia.
* 2002 , Sylvia Lawson, Budgerigars, and Positions of Ignorance'', in ''How Simone de Beauvoir died in Australia: stories and essays ,
* 2003 , Janet Judy McIntyre-Mills, quoting Olive Veverbrants, Critical systemic praxis for social and environmental justice (page 27),
* 2004 , Larry Habegger, Travelers' Tales Australia: True Stories (page 7),
A city in North Dakota.
A city in Texas.
A prophet, a disciple and successor of Elijah.
of biblical origin, in quiet use since the 17th century.
in occasional use, apparently confused with Elizabeth or Alicia.
As proper nouns the difference between alice and elisha
is that alice is {{given name|female|from=Germanic|}} popular in England since the Middle Ages while Elisha is a prophet, a disciple and successor of Elijah.alice
English
Proper noun
(Alice and Bob) (Alice Springs) (en proper noun)- That Iankin clerk, and my gossib dame Alis , / And I my-self, in-to the feldes wente.
- "My name is Alice , but - "
- "It's a stupid name enough!" Humpty Dumpty interrupted impatiently. "What does it mean?"
- "Must a name mean something?" Alice asked doubtfully.
- "Of course it must," Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh, "my name means the shape I am - and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost."
- She was heavenly to look at, and graceful, both in and out of water. She was a sculptress. She was christened 'Alice'', but she used to deny that she was really an ' Alice . I agreed. Everybody agreed. Sometime in a dream maybe I will find out what her real name was.
page 17,
- At that point in my second visit to the Alice', I'd been there only a day. they're ''doing'' Australia in two weeks, with a few days each for Sydney, the ' Alice and the Rock, Kakadu and Cairns.
- In 1892 my Chinese grandfather lived in Alice .
- "Don't waste yer time in The Alice , get out and see the country — that's what yer 'ere for."
