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Ranny vs Anny - What's the difference?

ranny | anny |

As a noun ranny

is (obsolete|outside|dialects) a shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).

As a determiner anny is

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ranny

English

Noun

(rannies)
  • (obsolete, outside, dialects) A shrew (in the sense of the mouselike animal).
  • * 1646 , Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica , XVIII:
  • instead of a caligation or dimness, we conclude a cecity or blindness. Which hath been frequently inferred concerning other Animals, so some affirm the Water-Rat is blind, so Sammonicus'' and ''Nicander do call the Mus-Araneus, the shrew or Ranny , blind [...].

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    anny

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
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