Eric vs Anthony - What's the difference?
eric | anthony |
A fine paid as compensation for violent crimes.
* 1948 (revised 1952), Robert Graves, The White Goddess , Faber & Faber 1999, p. 18:
, in regular use since the Middle Ages.
* 1922 , The Beautiful and Damned :
* 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English , Random House, page 245:
* 1955 (Joseph Heller), Catch-22 , Chapter Five:
A city in Kansas
A city in New Mexico
A town in Texas
As proper nouns the difference between eric and anthony
is that eric is , cognate to eric while anthony is , in regular use since the middle ages.eric
English
Noun
(en noun)- The court-poets of Wales [...] could demand an eric of ‘nine cows, and nine-score pence of money besides’.
References
* OED 2nd edition 1989Anagrams
*anthony
English
Alternative forms
* AntonyProper noun
(en proper noun)- "...Think you've got the best name I've heard," she was saying. - - "Anthony' Patch. Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face - and you ought to be in tatters." "That's the Patch part though. How should '''Anthony''' look?" "You look like ' Anthony ," she assured him seriously - he thought she had scarcely seen him - "rather majestic," she continued, " and solemn."
- It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony'' , a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ''Stephen'', ''Peter'', ''Michael , etc., in this country.
- She was built like a dream and wore a chain around her neck with a medal of Saint Anthony' hanging down inside the most beautiful bosom I never saw. "It must be a terrible temptation for Saint '''Anthony'''," I joked - just to put her at ease, you know. "Saint '''Anthony'''?" her husband said. "Who's Saint ' Anthony ?"