Jamie vs Anthony - What's the difference?
jamie | anthony |
An English and Scottish diminutive of the male given name James, also used as a formal given name.
derived from James, of modern American usage.
, in regular use since the Middle Ages.
* 1922 , The Beautiful and Damned :
* 1952 Thomas Pyles, Words and Ways of American English , Random House, page 245:
* 1955 (Joseph Heller), Catch-22 , Chapter Five:
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As proper nouns the difference between jamie and anthony
is that jamie is an english and scottish diminutive of the male given name james, also used as a formal given name while anthony is , in regular use since the middle ages.jamie
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)Anagrams
* English diminutives of male given namesanthony
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Alternative forms
* AntonyProper noun
(en proper noun)- "...Think you've got the best name I've heard," she was saying. - - "Anthony' Patch. Only you ought to look sort of like a horse, with a long narrow face - and you ought to be in tatters." "That's the Patch part though. How should '''Anthony''' look?" "You look like ' Anthony ," she assured him seriously - he thought she had scarcely seen him - "rather majestic," she continued, " and solemn."
- It is doubtless true that American English lacks a tradition for the pronunciation of Anthony'' , a name which was not often bestowed upon American males until the comparatively recent craze for supposedly swank "British" Christian names, like ''Stephen'', ''Peter'', ''Michael , etc., in this country.
- She was built like a dream and wore a chain around her neck with a medal of Saint Anthony' hanging down inside the most beautiful bosom I never saw. "It must be a terrible temptation for Saint '''Anthony'''," I joked - just to put her at ease, you know. "Saint '''Anthony'''?" her husband said. "Who's Saint ' Anthony ?"