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Bruni
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bruni
English
Etymology
en it Bruni.
Proper noun
s
en Italian.
en 2023-09-12 McWhorter John What Is 'It Is What It Is'? w:New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/opinion/it-is-what-it-is.html 2023-09-13 I even discovered in writing this newsletter that my colleague Frank Bruni had taken the phrase to task last year (“the most degrading sequence of five words in the English language”) and William Safire had commented on it in The Times all the way back in 2006. https://web.archive.org/web/20231102074416/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/opinion/it-is-what-it-is.html
Statistics
According to the 2010 United States Census, Bruni is the 14532nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2051 individuals. Bruni is most common among White (91.42%) individuals.
Further reading
Anagrams
en binru Bruin Burin Rubin bruin burin rub in rubin
Italian
it:
Etymology
Patronymic surname from the personal name it Bruno.
Pronunciation
brúni<audio:LL-Q652 (ita)-XANA000-Bruni.wav><hmp:bruni>
Proper noun
mfbysense
it patronymics
Further reading
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