Sandra vs Sandy - What's the difference?
sandra | sandy |
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* 1971 , The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager: Stories, Oberon Press 1971, page 23:
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Covered with sand.
Sprinkled with sand.
Like sand, especially in texture.
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, passage=Mr. Cooke at once began a tirade against the residents of Asquith for permitting a sandy and generally disgraceful condition of the roads. So roundly did he vituperate the inn management in particular, and with such a loud flow of words, that I trembled lest he should be heard on the veranda.}}
Having the colour of sand.
As proper nouns the difference between sandra and sandy
is that sandra is {{given name|female|from=Ancient Greek}} while Sandy is a diminutive of the male given name Alexander.As an adjective sandy is
covered with sand.As a noun Sandy is
shortened form of Sand Dancer.sandra
English
Proper noun
(s)- "Sandra', that's no name for anybody; that was a name for movie stars around 1948. Nobody's used it since. But the fact is, her name really is '''Sandra'''. - - - In the mills towns like Torrington and Bristol, the Italians might very well call a girl '''Sandra''' for real. Straight. It's just short for Alessandra. Alexandra. So she has numerous choices - she can be Sandy, a clean-cut WASP, or she can be Renaissance Alessandra, or movie-star ' Sandra , or old-fashioned Edwardian Alexandra, all on the one name."