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Garth vs Gary - What's the difference?

garth | gary |

As proper nouns the difference between garth and gary

is that garth is , shortened form of gareth while gary is .

garth

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
  • A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
    • a cloister garth
  • * Tennyson
    • A clapper clapping in a garth / To scare the fowl from fruit.
  • A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
  • (paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
  • (paganism) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
  • A dam or weir for catching fish.

    • Related terms

    * gravegarth ----

    gary

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A town in Indiana, and other US places named for persons with the surname Gary.
  • A city in South Dakota
  • , popular from the 1940s to the 1970s.

    • Quotations

    * 1957 Meredith Willson: The Music Man : Gary, Indiana ( a song) : *: Gary , Indiana! *: What a wonderful name! *: Named for Elbert Gary of judiciary fame. *: Gary , Indiana, as Shakespeare would say, *: Trips along softly on the tongue this way * 1964 Anne Tyler: If Morning Ever Comes . Severn House 1983. page 52: *: "Gary' s an awful name. Whatever he's like. It reminds me of a G.I. man with a crew cut, and 'Mom' tattooed on his chest, and lots of pin-up pictures on his wall."

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