Ann vs An - What's the difference?
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(UK, non-standard) used in many British regional accents before some words beginning with a pronounced h
(archaic) If, so long as.
(archaic) as if; as though.
In each; to or for each; per.
As a proper noun ann
is name of a.As a noun an is
favor, grace.ann
English
Alternative forms
* AnneProper noun
(en proper noun)- RAMSDEN . When you say Ann , you mean, I presume, Miss Whitefield.
- TANNER''. I mean our Ann''', your '''Ann''', Tavy's '''Ann''', and now, Heaven help me, my ' Ann .
- Given a perfectly good American name like Ann , she has deliberately chosen to label herself "Anya" after a long-dead great-grandmother, and put jam in her tea.
- "Her full name is Annie Lou. Like calling herself a snooty white girl name like Ann makes up for it."
- "Must I remind you that Ann is also my middle name?"
Usage notes
* Popular since fourteenth century due to the medieval cult of Saint Anne, the apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary. * A very common middle name since the 20th century.Adjective
(-)Anagrams
* English proper nouns ----an
English
(wikipedia an)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Article
(head)Usage notes
* The article (an) is used before vowel sounds and (optionally) before silent aitches, and (a) before consonant sounds. * The various article senses of (a), all are senses of (term).Etymology 2
From (etyl) anConjunction
(English Conjunctions)- An it please you, my lord.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge , The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (Original Version of 1797) 61-64:
- At length did cross an Albatross, Thorough the Fog it came; And an it were a Christian Soul, We hail'd it in God's Name.
Etymology 3
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From the (etyl) preposition an/on.Preposition
(English prepositions)- I was only going twenty miles an hour.