Katherine vs X - What's the difference?
katherine | x |
, a popular spelling variant of Catherine.
* 1816 Alexander Chalmers: The General Biographical Dictionary : page 186:
* 1991 Margaret Atwood: Wilderness Tips ISBN 0385 421060 : page 36:
A placename given to a river and a town in Northern Territory, Australia.
The twenty-fourth letter of the .
Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur
Roman numerals
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As a proper noun katherine
is , a popular spelling variant of catherine.As a letter x is
the twenty-fourth letter of the.As a symbol x is
voiceless velar fricative.katherine
English
(Katherine River)Proper noun
(en proper noun)- SAVAGE (HENRY) - - - His aim was to appear great in little things, and the gravity with which he discusses the origin, derivation, &c of the name Katherine', whether it should be spelt with a K or a C, at which time the letter ''k'' was introduced, and the double ''l'' in Balliol, is truly wonderful. - - - By his wife, Lady Mary Sandys, he left issue Henry, Edwin, John, ' Katherine , and Thomas
- During her childhood she was a romanticized Katherine , dressed by her misty-eyed, fussy mother in dresses that looked like ruffled pillowcases. By high school she'd shed the frills and emerged as a bouncy, round-faced Kathy - - - At university she was Kath, blunt and no-bullshit in her Take-Back-the-Night jeans and checked shirt - - - When she ran away to England, she sliced herself down to Kat. It was economical, street-feline, and pointed as a nail.