Jones vs Jon - What's the difference?
jones | jon |
, a spelling variant of John.
* 1920 : In Chancery: Awakening:
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* 1994 , The Cunning Man , Viking 1995, ISBN 0670859117, page 16:
As a noun jones
is heroin.As a verb jones
is (us|slang) have an intense craving.As an adjective jon is
yellow .jon
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- In that summer of 1909 the simple souls who even then desired to simplify the English tongue, had, of course, no cognizance of little Jon', or they would have claimed him for a disciple. But one can be too simple in this life, for his real name was Jolyon, and his living father and dead half-brother had usurped of old the other shortenings, Jo and Jolly. As a fact little '''Jon''' had done his best to conform to convention and spell himself first Jhon, then John, not till his father had explained the sheer necessity, had he spelled his name ' Jon .
- "I suppose I ought to call you Uncle Jack now." "Please don't. My name is Jonathan, and I've never had a nickname. Doesn't go with my character. So, Uncle Jon - if you must."