Emma vs Amelia - What's the difference?
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* 1854 Matthew Hall: The Queens Before the Conquest : page 259-260:
* 1917 Carl Van Vechten: Interpreters and Interpretations. A.A.Knopf,1917. page 92:
* 1980 Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves ISBN 0060805498 page 8:
* 1776 Adam Fitz-Adam, The World of Adam Fitz-Adam , Edinburgh, Apollo Press 1776: Numb. 187. Thursday, July 29, 1756:
* 1982 , Saving Amelia Earhart ,The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Fiction, ISBN 0814316956 page 66:
As nouns the difference between emma and amelia
is that emma is (british|dated|wwi|signalese) m in while amelia is (pathology) the congenital absence of one or more limbs.emma
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Both Saxon and Norman chroniclers unite in representing the youthful Queen Emma as in a peculiar degree gifted with elegance and beauty; so that many flattering epithets had been bestowed on her - as "the Pearl," "the Flower," or "the Fair Maid" of Normandy.
- Emma' Calvé...since ''Madame Bovary'' the name '''Emma''' suggests a solid ''bourgeois'' foundation, a country family...' Emma Eames, a chilly name...a wind from the East.
- The cottage now belonged to Emma''s mother Beatrix, who was a tutor in English literature at a women's college, specialising in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. This may have accounted for '''Emma''''s Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily, a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of ''The Wuthering Heights'', so ' Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.
Usage notes
* Used in England since the Norman Conquest, fashionable in the 19th century, and again in the U.K. from the 1970s to the 1990s, and in the U.S.A. in the 1990s and the 2000s.amelia
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- By their dresses, their names, and the airs of quality they give themselves, I am rendered ridiculous among all my acquaintance. My wife, who is a very plain good woman, and whose name is Amey, has been new-christened, and is called Amelia ; and my little daughter, a child of a year old, is no longer Polly, but Maria.
- We must have heard it first on the battery radio, the news about Amelia' Earhart, lost over the ocean. - - - Air Heart, I saw it spelled, ' Amelia ... a name like a soft, bold bird.