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s | cory |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As a noun cory is

any fish belonging to the genus , a group of south american freshwater catfish.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    cory

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Corey * Cori, Kori, Korey, Kory

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • transferred from the surname.
  • * 2005 Robert L. Fried, The Game of School , Jossey-bass, ISBN 0787973475, page 42:
    • On another poster are the names of the new class — unusual names (at least to me) like Wen Qi, Elijah, Yoav, Noni, Koray, Cai Ying and Julissa, along with more common names like Cory , Betty, Tammy, Jordan, Jeffrey, and Andrew.
  • (less common than the male name) transferred from the surname, also a pet form of Cora, Corinne and similar sounding names.
  • * 1991 Clark D. Neher, Southeast Asia in the New International Era , Westview Press, ISBN 0813311799, page 58:
    • Corazon "Cory " Aquino, the widow of the martyred Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., emerged as the person around whom all the oppositionists could coalesce.
  • * 1998 Robyn Amos, Into the Night , ISBN 0786005599, page 61:
    • I went to high school with a girl named Corrine, though, and everyone called her Cory —

    References

    Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges : A Dictionary of Surnames. Oxford University Press 1988. English surnames from given names