Caroline vs Carly - What's the difference?
caroline | carly |
. Borrowed in the 17th century from the (etyl) form of Carolina, feminine derivative of Carolus, the (etyl) equivalent of Charles, which came from (etyl) Karl .
* 1830 Mary Russell Mitford: Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
* 1999 Andrew Pyper: Lost Girls : Chapter Forty-Four:
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* 2008 Sheila Weller, Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon-- And the Journey of a Generation , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 1416564772, page 263:
As a noun caroline
is (historical) an old silver coin of italy.As a proper noun carly is
.caroline
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Synonyms
* CaroleanProper noun
(en proper noun)- - - - gentle Sophias milk your cows, and if you ask a pretty smiling girl at a cottage door to tell you her name, the rosy lips lisp out Caroline'. A great number of children, amongst the lower classes, are ' Carolines . That does not, however, wholly proceed from the love of the appellation; though I believe that a queen Margery or a queen Sarah would have had fewer namesakes.
- I used to love saying her name. Caroline', with the "i" always long, because to make it short left it sounding like ''crinoline'', a sweat-stained, mothballed Sunday hat pulled from an attic trunk. But '''Caroline with the "i" long created a sound roughly equivalent to the idea of a ''girl . The echo of a song in its three syllables, an age-old lyric not yet faded from memory.
Anagrams
* * * * English eponyms ----carly
English
Alternative forms
* Carley, Carlie, Carlee, Carli, Karly, Karlie, Karli, Karley, Karlee, Carleigh, KarleighProper noun
(en proper noun)- She introduced herself. I said, 'Where'd you get a name like Carly ?' and she said, from her aunt.