Amanda vs Jessica - What's the difference?
amanda | jessica |
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* 1767 Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy : Book VII, Chapter 31:
*::: Amandus - He
*::: Amanda - She -
* 1994 Caroline Graham: Written in Blood : page 35:
; formerly rare, but since the 1970s popular in all English-speaking countries .
* 1594 William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice: Act V: Scene I:
* 1996 , The Writer's Child , The Sandman Book of Dreams, HarperCollins, ISBN 0002246325, page 154:
As a proper noun jessica is
; formerly rare, but since the 1970s popular in all english-speaking countries.amanda
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- O there is a sweet era in the life of man, when ( the brain being tender and fibrillous, and more like pap than anything else ) - a story read of two fond lovers, separated from each other by cruel parents, and by still more cruel destiny -
- each ignorant of the other's course.
- Sue always thought of her offspring as Amanda . Allowing her to name the child had been one of the last indulgences that Brian had seen fit to bestow. Even then he had not the generosity to conceal his displeasure at her choice. Pretentious. Snobbish. Affected. The baby had been 'Mandy' from the day of her birth and, once Brian had really got the hang of high-rise/comprehensive linguistic mores, 'Mand'.
jessica
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Lorenzo : In such a night / Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew, / And with an unthrift love did run from Venice, / As far as Belmont.
- Jessica : In such a night / Did young Lorenzo swear he lov'd her well, / Stealing her soul with many vows of faith, / And ne'er a true one.
- Lorenzo : In such a night / Did pretty Jessica , like a little shrew, / Slander her love, and he forgave it her.
- She will be beautiful, of course - how could our child not be beautiful? We will name her...Jessica . Yes, that's a good name, not one of those lighter-than-air names so popular among writers of romances and fairy tales. That's a name a real little girl might have.
