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Alison vs Allison - What's the difference?

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Allison is a related term of alison.



As proper nouns the difference between alison and allison

is that alison is {{given name|female|from=Germanic}} while Allison is {{surname|patronymic|from=given names}.

alison

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
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  • *1951' translation by Nevill Coghill of: '''13?? Geoffrey Chaucer: ''Canterbury Tales: The Wife of Bath's Prologue :
  • *:He came up close and kneeling gently down
  • *:He said, "My love, my dearest Alison ,
  • *:So help me God, I never again will hit
  • *:You, love; and if I did, you asked for it.
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    allison

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • transferred from the surname; mostly of persons born before 1950.
  • taken into general use in the 1940s; usually interpreted as a spelling variant of Alison.
  • Quotations

    * 1956 : Peyton Place , UPNE, 1999, ISBN 1555534007, Book One, Chapter 4, *: Allison MacKenzie's father, for whom the child had been named, died when she was three years old. * 1994 , She Walks These Hills , Scribner's , ISBN 0684195569, page 81: *: "Allison ?" Surely that was a girl's name. *: "It's after Davey Allison , the race car driver. He got killed right before the baby was born. Tracy and me wanted to honor his memory." It was a precise little speech. She must have explained the name many times.

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