Ethel vs Ethal - What's the difference?
ethel | ethal |
, popular at the turn of the 20th century.
* 1855 William Makepeace Thackeray: The Newcomes . Bradbury and Evans 1855. page 95:
* 1979 Mary McMullen: But Nellie Was So Nice . Doubleday 1979. page 23:
As nouns the difference between ethel and ethal
is that ethel is the letter or ethel can be a kind of tree, perhaps a tamarisk, found in northern africa and in arabia, which has dark, bluish wood while ethal is (chemistry|dated) cetyl alcohol.ethel
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- If it is so false, and base, and hollow, this great world - - - why does Ethel Newcome cling to it? Will you be fairer, dear, with any other name than your own?
- Charmian Lyle had given herself her first name at the age of sixteen, upon encountering it in an English novel. Her baptismal name was Ethel'. When her husband Walter was extremely angry with her, he called her ' Ethel .
- Charmian, she thought, suited her much better. She didn't think she looked, felt, or sounded like Ethel . Nor like her middle name, which she really detested, Edna.