Jan vs Nan - What's the difference?
jan | nan |
A female nickname, sometimes used as a formal given name.
* 1899 Paul Leicester Ford: Janice Meredith : Chapter 1:
* 2008 , (Stephen King), Just After Sunset , Simon and Schuster (2009), ISBN 1416586652, page 129:
A male given name, in English mostly applied to foreign language speakers.
English diminutives of female given names
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As proper nouns the difference between jan and nan
is that jan is abbreviation of January|lang=en while Nan is {{given name|female|diminutive=Ann}} and Nancy.As nouns the difference between jan and nan
is that jan is obsolete form of lang=en while nan is affectionate name for a grandmother.As an initialism NAN is
NMDA Antagonist Neurotoxicity.jan
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Etymology 2
Shortened from (Janet) and (Janice).Proper noun
(en proper noun)- "Yes, Mommy," answered Janice. Then she turned to her friend and asked, "Shall I wear my light chintz and kenton kerchief, or my purple and white striped Persian?" "Sufficiently smart for a country lass, Jan ," cried her friend.
- She's startled. How long has it been since he called her Jax instead of Janet or Jan ? The last is a nickname she secretly hates. It makes her think of that syrupy-sweet actress on Lassie when she was a kid, the little boy (Timmy, his name was Timmy) always fell down a well or got bitten by a snake or trapped under a rock, and what kind of parents put a kid's life in the hands of a fucking collie?