Mel vs Meg - What's the difference?
mel | meg |
A diminutive of the female given names Margaret and Megan.
* 1818 John Keats: Meg Merrilies :
* 1985 , World's Fair , Fawcett Crest 1986, ISBN 0449212378, page 208
As a noun mel
is apple (fruit).meg
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Old Meg was brave as Margaret Queen,
- And tall as Amazon:
- An old red blanket cloak she wore,
- A chip-hat had she on.
- My mother thought Meg a sweet child, that's what she called her, a sweet child, although she was critical of her name.
- 'What kind of name is that,' she said.
- 'It's short for Margaret,' I said. 'But everyone calls her Meg .'
- 'Well, that's no name for a girl, that's a scullery maid's name. I fault the mother.'
