S vs Emma - What's the difference?
s | emma |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
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
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* 1854 Matthew Hall: The Queens Before the Conquest : page 259-260:
* 1917 Carl Van Vechten: Interpreters and Interpretations. A.A.Knopf,1917. page 92:
* 1980 Barbara Pym: A Few Green Leaves ISBN 0060805498 page 8:
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun emma is
(british|dated|wwi|signalese) m in.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }}emma
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Both Saxon and Norman chroniclers unite in representing the youthful Queen Emma as in a peculiar degree gifted with elegance and beauty; so that many flattering epithets had been bestowed on her - as "the Pearl," "the Flower," or "the Fair Maid" of Normandy.
- Emma' Calvé...since ''Madame Bovary'' the name '''Emma''' suggests a solid ''bourgeois'' foundation, a country family...' Emma Eames, a chilly name...a wind from the East.
- The cottage now belonged to Emma''s mother Beatrix, who was a tutor in English literature at a women's college, specialising in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novel. This may have accounted for '''Emma''''s Christian name, for it had seemed to Beatrix unfair to call her daughter Emily, a name associated with her grandmother's servants rather than the author of ''The Wuthering Heights'', so ' Emma had been chosen, perhaps with the hope that some of the qualities possessed by the heroine of the novel might be perpetuated.