ethel
see also: Ethel
Pronunciation
Ethel
Pronunciation
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see also: Ethel
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɛθəl/
- The letter Œ/œ, or the rune ᛟ.
- (letter, rune) odal
ethel
- Alternative form of athel.
Ethel
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɛθɪl/
- A female given name, popular at the turn of the 20th century.
- 1855 William Makepeace Thackeray: The Newcomes. Bradbury and Evans 1855. page 95:
- If it is so false, and base, and hollow, this great world […] why does Ethel Newcome cling to it? Will you be fairer, dear, with any other name than your own?
- 1979 Mary McMullen: But Nellie Was So Nice. Doubleday 1979. page 23:
- Charmian Lyle had given herself her first name at the age of sixteen, upon encountering it in an English novel. Her baptismal name was Ethel. When her husband Walter was extremely angry with her, he called her Ethel.
- Charmian, she thought, suited her much better. She didn't think she looked, felt, or sounded like Ethel. Nor like her middle name, which she really detested, Edna.
- 1855 William Makepeace Thackeray: The Newcomes. Bradbury and Evans 1855. page 95:
- pet form: Eth
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