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Kenneth vs Sara - What's the difference?

kenneth | sara |

As proper nouns the difference between kenneth and sara

is that kenneth is a given name derived from Scottish Gaelic, originally used in Scotland, popular in all English-speaking countries in the 20th century while Sara is {{given name|female|from=Hebrew}}.

kenneth

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , originally used in Scotland, popular in all English-speaking countries in the 20th century.
  • * 1825 Sir Walter Scott: The Talisman . Chapter III:
    • Know, however, that among the soldiers of the Cross I am called Kenneth' - ' Kenneth of the Couching Leopard; at home I have other titles, but they would sound harsh in an Eastern ear.
  • * 1998 Barbara Vine ( Ruth Rendell ): The Chimney Sweeper's Boy . ISBN 0670879274 page 166:
    • "The other one , his name was Kenneth , was born in February nineteen twenty-one."
    "All these Kens," she said.
    "As you say. It must have been the sexy name. These days Kens are all Chinese cooks. - - -

    Related terms

    * Ken * Kenny

    References

    Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: A Concise Dictionary of First Names. Oxford University Press 2001 ----

    sara

    English

    (wikipedia Sara)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • *
    • Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised.
  • *1850 (Dinah Craik), Olive , Chapman and Hall, page 151:
    • Olive learnt that her young beauty's name, so far from being anything so fine as Maddalena, was plain Sarah — or Sara , as its owner took care to explain. Olive was rather disappointed - but she thought of Coleridge's ladye love; consoled herself, and tried to console the young lady, with repeating
  • *::My pensive Sara ! thy soft cheek reclined, &c.
  • *:At which Miss Sara Derwent laughed, and asked who wrote that very pretty poetry?
  • * 2008 , The Northern Clemency , Harpercollins, ISBN 9780007174799, page 175
    • 'I wish I was called Sara ,' she said out loud.
    'Sarah?' her mother said. 'Why the heck is being called Sarah better than being called Tracy?'
    'Not Sarah, Sara ,' Tracy said. 'There's no h , you say Saaara.'

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