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Jon vs Ian - What's the difference?

jon | ian |

As an adjective jon

is yellow .

As a determiner ian is

.

As an adverb ian is

.

jon

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • , a spelling variant of John.
  • * 1920 : In Chancery: Awakening:
  • 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 .
  • .
  • * 1994 , The Cunning Man , Viking 1995, ISBN 0670859117, page 16:
  • "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."
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    ian

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Iain

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • .
  • * 1975 , , World of Wonders , ISBN 0670817902, page 736
  • “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 Eoin by Josh Mittleman

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