U vs Alex - What's the difference?
u | alex |
The twenty-first letter of the .
symbol for unified atomic mass unit
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(label) up quark
Image:Latin U.png, Capital and lowercase versions of U , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter U.png, Uppercase and lowercase U in Fraktur
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* 2006 (Kate Atkinson), One Good Turn (Black Swan(2007), ISBN 9780552772440), page 81:
*:Martin was pretty dull as names went but 'Alex' Blake' had a certain dash to it. His publishers hadn't considered Martin's own name to be 'punchy' enough. The pseudonym ' Alex Blake was chosen after much deliberation, most of which excluded Martin. 'A strong, no-nonsense sort of name', his editor said, 'to compensate'. For what, she didn't say.
, short form of Alexandra or the female name Alexis, or a spelling variant of Alix.
* 2008 , The Northern Clemency (Harpercollins, ISBN 9780007174799), page 588:
As a letter u
is the letter u with an acute accent.As a proper noun alex is
.u
Translingual
{{Basic Latin character info, previous=t, next=v, image=Etymology 1
Minuscule variation of U, a modern variation of classical Latin V, from seventh century Old Latin adoption of Old Italic letter .Letter
Etymology 2
Symbol
(head)See also
{{Letter , page=U , NATO=Uniform , Morse=··– , Character=U , Braille=? }}alex
English
Proper noun
(es)- 'I had a Christmas card from someone calling herself Alex the year before last,' Daniel said. 'I couldn't think who it was.'
- 'Oh, yes, she's changed again,' Alice said. 'I never got used to Alexandra, either. It never occurred to me that Sandra was short for Alexandra - anyway, she's Sandra on her birth certificate.'