Jon vs Ian - What's the difference?
jon | ian |
, a spelling variant of John.
* 1920 : In Chancery: Awakening:
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* 1994 , The Cunning Man , Viking 1995, ISBN 0670859117, page 16:
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* 1975 , , World of Wonders , ISBN 0670817902, page 736
As an adjective jon
is yellow .As a determiner ian is
.As an adverb ian is
.jon
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- In that summer of 1909 the simple souls who even then desired to simplify the English tongue, had, of course, no cognizance of little Jon', or they would have claimed him for a disciple. But one can be too simple in this life, for his real name was Jolyon, and his living father and dead half-brother had usurped of old the other shortenings, Jo and Jolly. As a fact little '''Jon''' had done his best to conform to convention and spell himself first Jhon, then John, not till his father had explained the sheer necessity, had he spelled his name ' Jon .
- "I suppose I ought to call you Uncle Jack now." "Please don't. My name is Jonathan, and I've never had a nickname. Doesn't go with my character. So, Uncle Jon - if you must."
ian
English
Alternative forms
* IainProper noun
(en proper noun)- “If you want a Scotch name why don’t you call him Jock?” Macgregor looked disgusted. “Because Jock is not a name, but a diminutive, as everybody knows well. It is the diminutive of John. And John is not a Scots name. The Scots form of that name is Ian'. If you want to call him ' Ian Fetch, I shall say no more.”
References
*Concerning the names Iain, Ian, and Eoinby Josh Mittleman
