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Harriet vs Ann - What's the difference?

harriet | ann |

As proper nouns the difference between harriet and ann

is that harriet is while ann is name of a.

harriet

English

Proper noun

(s)
  • .
  • * 1833 , A Year of Honey-Moons , Court magazine and monthly, E. Bull 1833, page 33:
  • Harriet , by the way, is a very sprightly name. It is the female of Harry, and is identified in my imagination with I know not what of the power of being lively and saucy, without committing the sweetness of womanhood.
  • * 1995 Elizabeth Wurtzel: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America , Riverhead Books, 1995, ISBN 1573225126, page 14
  • I found myself wanting to explain it to her, this middle-aged woman with the kind of haircut you call a hairdo, which needed to be set in rollers every night, who had a name like Agnes or Harriet , a name that even predated my mother's generation.

    ann

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Anne

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1903 , Man and Superman : Act I:
  • RAMSDEN . When you say Ann , you mean, I presume, Miss Whitefield.
    TANNER''. I mean our Ann''', your '''Ann''', Tavy's '''Ann''', and now, Heaven help me, my ' Ann .
  • * 1969 Constance Urdang, Natural History , Harper&Row 1969, page 61:
  • Given a perfectly good American name like Ann , she has deliberately chosen to label herself "Anya" after a long-dead great-grandmother, and put jam in her tea.
  • * 2005 , In Sheep's Clothing , Dafina Books, ISBN 0758203446, page 129:
  • "Her full name is Annie Lou. Like calling herself a snooty white girl name like Ann makes up for it."
    "Must I remind you that Ann is also my middle name?"

    Usage notes

    * Popular since fourteenth century due to the medieval cult of Saint Anne, the apocryphal mother of the Virgin Mary. * A very common middle name since the 20th century.

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