Pern vs Kern - What's the difference?
pern | kern |
part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle
* 1813 February 4, "Specification of the Patent granted to William Broughton for a Method of making a peculiar Species of Canvas", in The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture ,
* 1851 , Official catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations, Commissioners for the Exhibition of 1851 ,
* 1894 , The New Technical Educator: An Encyclopaedia of Technical Education , volume 3,
(Webster 1913)
(obsolete, or, dialect) A corn; grain; kernel.
any part of a letter which extends into the space used by another letter.
* 1856 , , Odd Fellows' Literary Casket , Volumes 6-7,
To adjust the horizontal space between selected pairs of letters (characters or glyphs); to perform such adjustments to a portion of text, according to preset rules.
* 2001 , Constance J. Sidles, Graphic Designer's Digital Printing and PrePress Handbook ,
* 2001 , Bill Camarda, Special Edition Using Microsoft Word 2002 ,
* 2006 , Tova Rabinowitz, Exploring Typography ,
* 2008 , Terry Rydberg, Exploring Adobe InDesign CS4 ,
A light-armed foot soldier of the ancient militia of Ireland and Scotland; in archaic contexts often used as a term of contempt .
* , Act 3, Scene 7,
* 1908 , ,
(obsolete) A boor; a low person.
(obsolete, UK, legal) An idler; a vagabond.
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As nouns the difference between pern and kern
is that pern is part of a spinning wheel, a conical spool onto which the thread is wound from the spindle or pern can be a honey buzzard; pernis apivorus while kern is kernel.As a verb pern
is to take profit of; to make profitable.pern
English
Etymology 1
Presumably from a verb .Charles Moorman, ''The Works of the Gawain-Poet (1977), ISBN 978-1-60473-409-6,page 324. See also pirl.
Noun
(en noun)page 72:
page 38:
- Model of a patent machine for winding yarn from the hank, upon the shuttlecope or pern .
page 234:
- In one division the spindles carry the bobbins revolving inside a kind of cup or cone fitting down upon the pern , and the latter is shaped to fit accurately this conical surface.
Derived terms
* perne v.(?) (Yeats) * perning (Yeats)Etymology 2
19th century, after the taxonomical name Pernis (Cuvier 1816).Etymology 3
See pernancy.References
kern
English
Etymology 1
A variant of corn, see (etyl) kern, (etyl) kerno, cherno, (etyl) kerne, kern, (etyl) ; see also kernel.Noun
Etymology 2
(kerning) From (etyl)"kern" at Etymonlineor from Etymology 1. The verb is a back-formation from (kerned), which is from the noun.
Alternative forms
* kerneNoun
(en noun)page 360,
- A few types have a portion of the face letter projecting over the body, as in the letter f ; this projection is called the kern', and in combination with other letters the projecting part generally extends over the next letter, as in fe. In those combinations, wherein the ' kern would come in contact with another letter, compound types are cast, as in the case of ff, fi, fl, ffi, ffl.
Verb
(en verb)page 51,
- If you need to kern anything beyond the most commonly used pairs, you can use applications software such as Adobe PageMaker to customize pairs.
page 122,
- Especially consider kerning if you are printing on a relatively high-resolution printer, such as a 600-dpi (dots per inch) laser printer.
page 320,
- Remember, the goal of kerning is to make letter pairs look natural, not necessarily to minimize letterspaces.
page 98,
- You should kern letter pairs when spacing between characters is too wide or too narrow.
Derived terms
* kern pairEtymology 3
From (etyl) ceithern.Alternative forms
* kerneNoun
(en noun)- O then belike she was old and gentle; and you rode like a kern of Ireland, your French hose off and in your strait strossers.
- There he entertained Shan O'Neil, a famous, turbulent chief from Ireland, who late in this year visited Elizabeth's Court, where his train of kerns and gallowglasses, clothed in linen kilts dyed with saffron, made a great impression.
- (Blount)
- (Wharton)
