Lynn vs Linda - What's the difference?
lynn | linda |
Any of several place names (outside Britain named for persons with the surname).
# A town in Alabama.
# A town in Arkansas.
# A town in Indiana.
# A city in Massachusetts.
# An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
# A town in Wisconsin.
# A community in Nova Scotia.
usually appearing as a middle name.
, popular as a middle name.
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* 1752 Countess D'Aulnoi, Thomas Parnell: The Court of Queen Mab. Tales of Fairies . London,M.Cooper, MDCCLII.page 328:
* 1946 Jack Lawrence: Linda ( a popular song ) :
As a proper noun lynn
is .As a verb linda is
.lynn
English
Alternative forms
* (female name) Lyn, LynneProper noun
(en proper noun)Quotations
* 1595 (William Shakespeare), King Henry VI, Part 3, Act IV, Scene V *: King Edward . But whither shall we then? *: Hastings . To Lynn , my lord; and ship from thence to Flanders. * 1989 (Ann Richards), Peter Knobler, Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and Other Places , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671680730, page 91 *: David's father's name was Leon, and those people who didn't call him Dick called him Lynn'. And I loved my former professor Ralph '''Lynn''', so I named my baby ' Lynn Cecile. * 2007 Susan Richards Shreve, ''Warm Springs: Traces of a Childhood at FDR's Polio Haven, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, ISBN 061865853X, page 67 *: He called me Mary because I had told him my middle name was Mary and I was called by that name at home, although my middle name was Lynn'. But neither Susan or ' Lynn seemed right for a Quaker girl converting to Catholicism. English diminutives of female given nameslinda
English
Alternative forms
* LyndaProper noun
(en proper noun)- The Orange-Tree'' stood in a Wood which belong'd to a Princess, who liv'd in a magnificent Palace not far off, and us'd to walk there. This Princess was young, beautiful and witty, and her Name ''Linda .
- When I go to sleep / I never count sheep / I count all the charms about Linda .