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Ellen vs Shirley - What's the difference?

ellen | shirley |

As proper nouns the difference between ellen and shirley

is that ellen is while shirley is an english habitational surname.

As an adverb shirley is

(informal|humorous) surely.

ellen

English

Alternative forms

* (l)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) Zeal.
  • (obsolete) Strength; courage.
  • (theology) Strength vouchsafed; comfort; grace.
  • Derived terms

    * (l) ----

    shirley

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • An English habitational surname
  • (rarely ) transferred from the surname.
  • transferred from the surname. Popular from the 1920s to the 1950s.
  • Quotations

    * : Act V, Scene IV: *: Hold up thy head, vile Scot, or thou art like / Never to hold it up again! the spirits / Of valiant Shirley , Stafford, Blunt, are in my arms. * 1849 , Shirley , Chapter XI: *: Shirley' Keeldar ( she had no Christian name but ' Shirley ; her parents, who had wished to have a son, finding that, after eight years of marriage, Providence had granted them only a daughter, bestowed on her the same masculine family cognomen they would have bestowed on a boy, if with a boy they had been blessed) - - - * 1921 , Rilla of Ingleside , Chapter 2: *: Shirley' Blythe was with Una Meredith and both were rather silent because such was their nature. ' Shirley was a lad of sixteen, sedate, sensible, thoughtful, full of a quiet humour. * 1951 , The Serpent-Wreathed Staff , Bobbs-Merrill, page 50: *: "Why a girl like you should be named Shirley' is beyond me. You haven't a ruffle or a furbelow anywhere in your nature." "Is that meant for an insult?" she asked, flushing angrily. "No, it's just that it's incongruous. You are the 'give us this day our daily bread' sort of person. ' Shirley is party stuff."

    Adverb

    (-)
  • (informal, humorous) surely
  • References

    * [http://groups.google.co.uk/groups/search?q=%22shirley+you%22&btnG=Search&sitesearch=groups.google.com]