Collins vs Colin - What's the difference?
collins | colin |
from the given name Colin, pet form of Coll (Nicholas).
* 2011 Colin Diyen, Ring Road Safari , African Books Collective, ISBN 9956726737, page 5:
, anglicized from the Gaelic Ó Coileáin .
Any of various alcoholic drinks made with lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water.
* : VI:x:16:
* 1992 Howard B. Means, Colin Powell , Donald J. Fine (1992), ISBN 1556113358, page 49:
Colin is a related term of collins.
As proper nouns the difference between collins and colin
is that collins is {{surname|A=An|English patronymic|from=given names}} from the given name Colin, pet form of Coll (Nicholas) while Colin is a given name derived from Ancient Greek.As nouns the difference between collins and colin
is that collins is any of various alcoholic drinks made with lemon juice, sugar, and carbonated water while colin is the American quail or bobwhite, or related species.collins
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "But your own name too sounds funny," Tampio said. "Your names are repeated. Only you have spelt one wrongly. How could you call yourself Colin Collins'? Here in Cameroon, we only know about ' Collins ."
Derived terms
* Collinsian * collinsiteNoun
(es)Synonyms
* collins * Tom Collinscolin
English
Alternative forms
* CollinProper noun
(en-proper noun) ( plural Colins )- That iolly shepheard, which there piped, was / Poore Colin' Clout (who knowes not ' Colin Clout?)
- "My parents," Powell wrote, "were British subjects, and they named me Colin' (KAH-lin). Being British, they knew very well how the name was supposed to be pronounced. But when I was a young boy, there was a famous American World War II hero whose name became very popular in the streets of New York City. He was Capt. ' Colin P. Kelly Jr. He was called KOH-lin. My friends in the streets of the South Bronx, who heard Captain Kelly's name pronounced in the radio and by their parents and other adults, began to refer to me by the same pronunciation.