Albert vs Herbert - What's the difference?
albert | herbert |
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* 1862 , The Idylls of the King: Dedication:
* 1956 Eddie Condon, Thomas Sugrue: ''We Called it Music: A Generation of Jazz. Peter Davies 1956. page 40:
* 2000 (Anne Enright), What Are You Like? , Random House (2001), ISBN 9780099284345, page 85:
A constituency in Belize
A city in Kansas
A rural municipality in Manitoba
A town in New South Wales
A ghost town in Texas
. In modern use partly transferred back from the surname.
* 1989 David Leavitt: Equal Affections . ISBN 0-670-821977 page 215:
* ~1593 William Shakespeare: Richard III: Act V, Scene III :
As a proper noun albert
is (label) , equivalent to (albert).As a noun herbert is
(slang|punk subculture) a working-class youth.albert
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Thou noble Father of her Kings to be - - - / Dear to thy land and ours, a Prince indeed, / Beyond all titles, and a household name, / Hereafter, thro' all times, Albert the Good.
- Helena was not flattered. "Albert' just doesn't appreciate music," she said. They all called me ' Albert then. I thought it was a fine name; I like elegance.
- Hogan, Byrne, O'Brien. She stopped at one name. Albert' Delahunty — what Catholic in their right mind would call a child ' Albert ?
Derived terms
* Albert chain * Prince AlbertAnagrams
* ----herbert
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Herbert , Sydney, Milton, Seymour. You know, all the time I was growing up I thought those were the most ordinary Jewish first names, until someone pointed out that they were British last names. I guess to my great-grandparents those names must have sounded so modern, so sophisticated, so - non-Eastern European. And now they're just Uncle Miltie, Uncle Sy, Uncle Herb. Do other people have Uncle Donne and Uncle Wordsworth?
- And you, Sir Walter Herbert , stay with me.