Patrick vs Ashley - What's the difference?
patrick | ashley |
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* 1594 William Shakespeare: Hamlet : Act I, Scene V :
* 1993 Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha : page 138:
A common English place name.
derived from the places.
transferred from the surname.
* 1936 Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind : Chapter III:
transferred from the surname.
* 1999 Andrew Pyper: Lost Girls : Chapter Ten:
As proper nouns the difference between patrick and ashley
is that patrick is while ashley is a common english place name.patrick
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Yes, by Saint Patrick , but there is, Horatio,
- And much offence, too.
- - Are unusual names nice?
- - Yes.
- - Then why am I called Patrick ?
- She laughed but only for a little bit. She smiled at me, I think to make sure that I knew she wasn't laughing at me.
- - Because your daddy's called Patrick , she said.
- I liked that, being called after my da.
- - There are five Patricks in our class, I said.
- - Is that right?
- - Patrick' Clarke. That's me. '''Patrick''' O'Neill. '''Patrick''' Redmond. '''Patrick''' Genocci. ' Patrick Flynn.
- - That's a lot, she said. - It's a nice name. Very dignified.
- - Three of them are called Paddy, I told her. - One Pat and one Patrick .
ashley
English
Alternative forms
* Ashlee * Ashleigh * AshlieProper noun
(s)- 'There now, Scarlett! You admit it is true. What would you be doing with a husband like Ashley ? 'Tis moonstruck they all are, all the Wilkes.'
- But when Krystal McConnell and Ashley Flynn were named deep in the heart of the '80s the thing was cuteness, feminine delicacy raised to an aesthetic paradigm. --- And everyone named according to a particular version of the pedigree fantasy. Ashley'' : transplanted Southern privilege, a destiny lying in sorority mixers and a marriage of health club memberships, state-of-the-art appliances and night courses in ''nouvelle cuisine .