Bertha vs Angela - What's the difference?
bertha | angela |
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* 1858 , The Courtship of Miles Standish :
* 1921 , Rilla of Ingleside , Echo Library (2006), ISBN 1406821772, page 12:
* 1983 , Bluebeard's Egg , McCleland-Bantam, ISBN 0770421342, page 135:
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* : III:iii:56
* 1996 Frank McCourt: Angela's Ashes . HarperCollins. ISBN 0 00 649840 X Chapter I, page 5:
*::: ibid., page 39:
As a noun bertha
is a lace collar that covers the shoulders of a dress.As a proper noun angela is
(female given name).bertha
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- You are the beautiful Bertha , the spinner, the queen of Helvetia; / She whose story I read at a stall in the streets of Southampton
- Why couldn't they have called her by her first name, Bertha , which was beautiful and dignified, instead of that silly "Rilla"?
- "No wonder she never gets anywhere with a name like Bertha'," Sally said, while having coffee afterwards with two of the other night-coursers. "It goes with her outfits, though." ( ' Bertha sports the macrame look, with health-food sandals and hand-weave skirts that don't do a thing for her square figure, [...])
Anagrams
* * ----angela
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Faire Angela (quoth she) men do her call, / No whit lesse faire, then terrible in fight: / She hath the leading of a Martiall / And mighty people, dreaded more then all / The other Saxons, which do for her sake / And love, themselves of her name Angles call.
- And the child was named Angela for the Angelus which rang the midnight hour, the New Year, the minute of her coming and because she was a little angel anyway.
- The man says his name is Mr. Dimino and that's his wife, Angela', behind the counter. I tell him that's my mother's name. No kiddin', kid. Your mother is '''Angela'''? I didn't know the Irish had any ' Angelas .