Anne vs Emma - What's the difference?
anne | emma |
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* 1380s-1390s , :
* 1860 Mrs Henry Wood (Ellen Wood): East Lynne . Kessinger Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0192804626 page 29:
* 1908 Lucy Maud Montgomery: Anne of the Green Gables
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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:
As nouns the difference between anne and emma
is that anne is year while emma is (british|dated|wwi|signalese) m in.anne
English
Etymology 1
The French spelling of (Ann), used interchangeably since the Middle Ages. From Vulgate (etyl) (m), from (etyl) , from the (etyl) female name {{m, he, ???, ??????, tr=Hannah), meaning 'grace; gracious'. Compare with (John).Proper noun
(Annes)- Immortal God, that savedest Susanne / From false blame; and thou merciful maid, / Mary I mean, the daughter to Saint Anne , /Before whose child the angels sing Osanne,
- "What do you think they are going to name the baby? Anne ; after her and her mamma. So very ugly a name!"
- "I don't think so," said Mr Carlyle. "It is simple and unpretending. I like it much. Look at the long, pretentious names in our family - Archibald! Cornelia! And yours, too - Barbara! What a mouthful they all are!"
- "But if you call me Anne' please call me ' Anne spelled with an e."
- "What difference does it make how it's spelled?" asked Marilla with another rusty smile as she picked up the teapot.
- "Oh, it makes such'' a difference. It ''looks so much nicer. When you hear a name pronounced can't you always see it in your mind, just as if it was printed out? I can, and A-n-n looks dreadful, but A-n-n-e looks so much more distinguished."
Usage notes
* The popularity of the name originates in the medieval cult of Saint Anne, the apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary.Etymology 2
A shortened form of any of various Germanic masculine names which began with arn'' (''eagle ), such as Arnold.Anagrams
* English terms with multiple etymologies ----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.