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Emily vs Isabella - What's the difference?

emily | isabella |

As an initialism emily

is (us|politics) early money is like yeast (ie it "raises dough", or makes money): receiving many donations early in a political race helps to attract further donors.

As a noun isabella is

a brownish-yellow colour.

emily

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1380s-1390s , (Geoffrey Chaucer),
    • I am thy mortal foe, and it am I
    That so hot loveth Emily the bright,
    That I would die here present in her sight.
  • * 1830 (Mary Russell Mitford), Our Village: Fourth Series: Cottage Names:
    • People will please their fancies, and every lady has her favourite names. I myself have several, and they are mostly short and simple. - - - Emily', in which all womanly sweetness seems bound up - perhaps this is the effect of association of ideas - I have known so many charming ' Emilys
  • * 1980 Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves ISBN 0060805498 page 8:
    • This may have accounted for Emma's Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily , a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of The Wuthering Heights , so Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.
  • * 2010 (Joanne Harris), blueeyedboy , Doubleday, ISBN 9780385609500, page 102:
    • Emily . Em-il-y, three syllables, like a knock on the door of destiny. Such an odd, old-fashioned name, compared to those Kylies and Traceys and Jades — names that reeked of Impulse and grease and stood out in gaudy neon colours — whilst hers was that muted, dusky pink, like bubblegum, like roses —

    Usage notes

    * Emily has been used as a vernacular form of the Germanic Amelia, up to the nineteenth century. * Used since the Middle Ages; popular in the 19th century and once again today.

    Related terms

    * emulate (from the same Latin root) * Emil, Emile * Em, Emmie, Emmy, Millie, Milly

    See also

    * Amelia * Emma

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    isabella

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * : Act I, Scene V:
    • Can you so stead me,
    As bring me to the sight of Isabella ,
    A novice of this place, and the fair sister
    To her unhappy brother Claudio?
  • * 1857 Mary Anne Everett Green, Lives of the Princesses of England , Vol. 3, page 2 ("Elizabeth, eighth daughter of Edward I"):
  • *:A contemporary, and usually very accurate chronicler, Bartholomew of Norwich, tells us that the queen called her infant by the barbarous name of Walkiniana; others again call her Isabella ; but, in the wardrobe accounts, and all other state records, she is invariably designated Elizabeth.

    • Usage notes

    * Popular in England in the 19th century, and again in all English-speaking countries in the 2000s.

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