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Many of these are degenerations in the pronunciation of names that originated in other languages. Sometimes a well-known namesake with the same spelling has a markedly different pronunciation. These are known as heterophonic names or heterophones (unlike heterographs, which are written differently but pronounced the same).
This is a list of British English words that have different American English spellings, for example, colour (British English) and color (American English). Word pairs are listed with the British English version first, in italics, followed by the American English version: spelt, spelled; Derived words often, but not always, follow their root.
Cecilia, Cecelia, Celeste, Celestina, Celie Celia is a feminine given name of Latin origin, as well as a nickname for Cecilia , Cecelia , Celeste , or Celestina. The name is often derived from the Roman family name Caelius , thought to originate in the Latin caelum ("heaven").
Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...
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Faye's Vision/Cover Images Tori Spelling once had purple hair — but not where you’d think. Spelling, 51, recently recalled a time when she accidentally dyed her pubic hair purple during the ...
Cecilia is a personal name originating in the name of Saint Cecilia, ... the way for the blind, contemplation of heaven and the active life, ...
The 18th-century English politician Charles Fox was a fashionable macaroni in his youth and tinted his hair with blue powder. [4] A group of Spanish women with blue rinsed hair. In 1913–1914, just before World War I, there was a vogue for dyed brightly-colored hair in different shades such as blue, violet or emerald. This started in Paris and ...