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e | laurie |

As a letter e

is the letter e with a circumflex.

As a proper noun laurie is

a pet form of the male given name laurence.

e

Translingual

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Letter

  • The fifth letter of the .

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * See

    Symbol

    (Close-mid front unrounded vowel) (head)
  • (label) The base of natural logarithms, a transcendental number with a value of approximately 2.718281828459
  • Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.
    • 1.2566e-6 = 1.2566 × 10-6
  • close-mid front unrounded vowel
  • (l)
    • a'' ? ''e''''' = '''''e'' ? ''a'' = ''a
  • (label) electron

    • Synonyms

    * (electron) * (identity element) , (chiefly matrices) (l)

    See also

    {{Letter , page=E , NATO=Echo , Morse=· , Character=E5 , Braille=? }} Image:Latin E.png, Capital and lowercase versions of E , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter E.png, Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur Image:Uncial e.png, Approximate form of upper case letter E in uncial script that was the source for lower case e ----

    laurie

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (male given name)Lawrie * (female given name) Lauri, Lori, Lorie

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A pet form of the male given name Laurence.
  • * 1868 Louisa May Alcott: Little Women . Chapter 3:
    • "I’m not Mr. Laurence, I’m only Laurie ."
    "Laurie Laurence, what an odd name."
    "My first name is Theodore, but I don’t like it, for the fellows called me Dora, so I made them say Laurie instead."
  • derived from the male given name.
  • * ca. 1700 ?William Douglas: '':
    • Maxwelton braes are bonnie
    Where early fa's the dew;
    An' it's there that Annie Laurie
    Gi'ed me her promise true.
  • A diminutive of Laura. Popular as a female given name in the US in the mid-twentieth century.
  • * 2005 Adeline Catherine Anderson: My Sunshine . Signet Classic 2005. ISBN 0451213807 page 397:
    • Laura called her parents. Her father answered. Fighting to keep her voice steady, Laura said, "Hi, Daddy."
    "Laurie ? How's my little girl?"
    English diminutives of male given names English diminutives of female given names