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Karen vs Lennon - What's the difference?

karen | lennon |

As nouns the difference between karen and lennon

is that karen is while lennon is .

karen

English

(wikipedia Karen)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) Karen.

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • . First taken up as a given name in the U.S.A., and popular in the English-speaking world from the 1950s to the 1970s.
  • * 1878 , Drift-Weed , Houghton, Osgood,1878, page 28 ("Karen"):
    • Left you a lover in that far land, / O Karen sad, that you pine so long! / Would I could unravel and understand / That sorrowful, sweet Norwegian song!
  • * 1918 Cecily Ullman Sidgwick, Karen , W.Collins, 1918, page 12:
    • I was not called Karen after Hans Andersen's dancing girl, but after a Danish friend of my mother's who married an Englishman and was my godmother. So much for our family affairs.

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A group of languages of Myanmar and Thailand.

    • External links

    Ethnologue report on the Karen languages

    Etymology 3

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    lennon

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • , notably of (1940–1980), one of the Beatles.
    • 2011 Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Cold Eye of Heaven , Atlantic Books, ISBN 978 0857890306, page 117:
  • *:: 'He means the other'' Lennon''',' Slowey's voice said. ' ''John'' '''Lennon from the Beatles.' And Farley saw him then, on the bend of the counter smoking a cigar. Slowey then turned to the barman, '... and ''he means the other Lenin, you know, the Russian revolutionary?'
  • , modern transferred use of the surname.

    • Anagrams

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