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Percy vs Jason - What's the difference?

percy | jason |

As proper nouns the difference between percy and jason

is that percy is while jason is (greek mythology) the leader of the argonauts, who retrieved the golden fleece from king aeetes of colchis, for his uncle pelias.

percy

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , transferred use of the surname since the Middle Ages.
  • Usage notes

    * Also used as a pet form of Piers and Percival.

    Quotations

    * ~1597 William Shakespeare: First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Act V, Scene IV : *: Hotspur . My name is Harry Percy . *: Prince . Why, then, I see / A very valiant rebel of that name. / I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy , / To share with me in glory any more. * 2008 , The Secret Scripture , Faber and Faber, ISBN 978-0-571-21528-7, pages 198 - 199: *: I have written again to ask if I may visit there sometime soon, and talk to the administrator, who it turns out is an old acquaintance, a man called Percival Quinn, I think the only Percy I have heard of in the present era, let alone met.

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    jason

    English

    (wikipedia Jason)

    Proper noun

    (s)
  • (Greek mythology) The leader of the Argonauts, who retrieved the Golden Fleece from king Aeetes of Colchis, for his uncle Pelias.
  • * , Scene II:
  • I know he will be glad of our success: / We are the Jasons , we have won the fleece.
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  • And when they found them not, they drew Jason' and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also; Whom ' Jason hath received: and these all do contrary to the decrees of Caesar, saying that there is another king, one Jesus.
  • * 1984 , The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole , Methuen 1985, ISBN 0413588106, page 49:
  • The new prince left the hospital today. My father is hoping that he will be called George, after him. My mother said that it's time the Royal Family came up to date and called the Prince Brett or Jason .

    Usage notes

    * The given name was very popular in the English-speaking world in the 1970s and the 1980s.

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