Amy vs Mitta - What's the difference?
amy | mitta |
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* 1886 Hubert Hall: Society in the Elizabethan Age . Kessinger Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0766139743 page 94:
* 1975 Derek Marlowe: Nightshade . Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975. page 7:
* 1999 Susan Butler, Lawrence Butler: East to the Dawn: The Life of Amelia Earhart. ISBN 0306808870 page 5:
an old English measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels. Also mett.
* 1866 : Once the mitta, or mett, a quantity of two bushels, is used for salt. The name still lingers in Lancashire. — James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 1, p. 168.
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As nouns the difference between amy and mitta
is that amy is friend while mitta is an old english measure of volume, perhaps equal to two bushels also mett.amy
English
Proper noun
(s)- The Dame Anne Dudley, mentioned in a contemporary record, was Leicester's first wife, the unfortunate Amy' Robsart. It may be noticed, in passing, that the name '''Amy - presuming that it occurs in contemporary manuscripts of authority - is an extremely rare one. It is obvious how easily the name ''Aime might be read for Anne.
- As a child, Amy' could have been drawn by Millais, if he was inclined - the name ' Amy is deceptively apt - but though the plumpness remains, not much but some, the ringlets have gone to be replaced by curls of the colour of cinnamon.
- As Amy' had been baptized Amelia ( but always called ' Amy ) after her mother, now her daughter, too, was baptized Amelia.