Lawrence vs Larry - What's the difference?
lawrence | larry |
A diminutive of Laurence and Lawrence. Popular as a male given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and the 1950s.
* 1998 Carol Shields: Larry's Party . Penguin 1998. ISBN 0140266771 page 254:
* 2002 Laurell K. Hamilton: Circus of the Damned . JOVE 2002. ISBN 0515134481 page 149:
As proper nouns the difference between lawrence and larry
is that lawrence is a given name derived from Latin, the usual spelling of Laurence in the U.S while Larry is a diminutive of Laurence and Lawrence. Popular as a male given name in the U.S. in the 1940s and the 1950s.As a noun larry is
alternative form of lang=en.lawrence
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Quotations
* 2007 John Dunning, The Bookworm's Last Fling , Simon & Schuster 2007, ISBN 1416523391, page 321 *: "My name is Richard Lawrence ." *: Candice thought he had a storybook name. Like Lawrence of Arabia, she said, but what she always called him was Ricky. Just a jump away from Tricky Dicky. * 2003 Elise Title, Inside Out: A Mystery , St.Martin's Minotaur 2003, ISBN 0312285825, page 69 *: "I named him Lawrence'. After my father. Pete, that's my husband, he never really liked the name ' Lawrence . He thought it wasn't very..." she shut her eyes for a moment, shaking her head slowly, "...very masculine." She opened her eyes and smiled ruefully. " That's a good one, isn't it?"larry
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Proper noun
(en proper noun)- No one gets named Larry' anymore. It's had it as a name. Think of someone called ' Larry and you automatically conjure up a guy drinking beer in a sixties rec room.
- "Larry', name's '''Larry'''." I smiled, it was too ridiculous. He was worried about me calling him Lawrence instead of ' Larry with a rogue zombie climbing out of the dirt.