Fon vs She - What's the difference?
fon | she |
(rfv-sense) (obsolete) A fool or idiot.
* 1579 , Edmund Spender, The Shepheardes Calender: Februarie :
(rfv-sense) (obsolete) Foolish; simple; silly.
(rfv-sense) (obsolete) To be foolish or simple; act like a fool; dote.
A chieftain or king of a region of Cameroon.
* 2008 , Milton Krieger, Cameroon's Social Democratic Front (ISBN 9956558168), page 71:
* 2010 , Historical Dictionary of the Republic of Cameroon (ISBN 0810873990), page 53:
* 2011 , Society and Change in Bali Nyonga: Critical Perspectives (ISBN 9956579394), page 152:
(personal) A female person or animal.
* , II.ix:
A ship.
(personal, affectionate) Another machine (besides a ship), such as a car.
(personal, nonstandard) .
* , Flow , 1990:
A female.
* (rfdate) Shakespeare:
* 2000 , Sue V. Rosser, Building inclusive science volume 28, issues 1-2, page 189:
As a noun fon
is phone (telephone).As an initialism she is
initialism of standard hydrogen electrode.fon
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fon, fonne, of (etyl) origin, related to (etyl) . More at (m).Noun
(en noun)- Thou art a fon , of thy loue to boste,
- All that is lent to loue, wyll be lost.
Adjective
(-)Etymology 2
From (etyl) fonnen, from fon, .Verb
(fonn)Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- Province-wide, the latter part of the 1990s witnessed considerable efforts by the regime to organize and activate a bloc of such financially dependent fons in the North West Elite Association (NWELA),
- In the early 1900s, the Bafut fought several wars with the German colonizers and their allies, ending in 1907 with the exile of the fon of that time.
- Biya's volte-face became apparent in July 1990 when he, as president of the ruling Cameroon People's Democratic Movement (CPDM) appointed Ganyonga and the fons of Mankon and and Bafut into key positions of the party
she
English
(wikipedia she)Pronoun
- Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall [...].
- I asked Mary, but she''' said that '''she didn't know.
- She could do forty knots in good weather.
- She''' is a beautiful boat, isn't '''she ?
- She''' only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but '''she' s durable.
- Optimal experience is thus something that we make'' happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she''' has built, higher than any ' she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.
See also
(English personal pronouns)Noun
(en noun)- Pat is definitely a she .
- And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare.
- A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.