Glenn

glenn English Pronunciation glĕn RP,GA, en /ɡlɛn/ glĭn pin-pen, en /ɡlɪn/ en en-au-glen.ogg AU en ɛn 1 Proper noun en ucomm co/Glenn County s/California c/USA. en ucomm/and/CDP co/Heard County s/Georgia c/USA. en ucomm co/Jackson County s/Illinois c/USA. en ucomm co/Ripley County s/Missouri c/USA. en Scottish Gaelic, variant of Glen. en male surnames, fairly popular in the middle of the 20th century. en 1937 Clara Studer Sky storming Yankee Stackpole sons, 1937 19 The Glen was the prettiest place she knew, so pretty she thought she ought to name her first baby after it. With another "n" added "to make it look more like a name", she called him Glenn Hammond Curtiss. The middle name was taken from the town itself, or its first settler, Lazarus Hammond.The whimsy of naming her son after a local landmark was typical of Lua Curtiss. Then too a name like Glenn Hammond Curtiss has sweep and resonance, was much less commonplace than Harry or Jim or Charlie; or Frank, like his father. en 2003 w:Margaret Atwood Oryx and Crake Virago 2004 9780349004068 80 Of course Crake wasn't Crake yet, at that time; his name was Glenn. Why did it have two n's instead of the usual spelling? "My dad liked music," was Crake's explanation, once Jimmy got around asking him about it, which had taken a while. "He named me after a dead pianist, some boy genius with two n's." en John Vaught Labeaume No Thanks, CPAC. This Libertarian Won't Attend a Conservative Love-Fest. Reason Magazine Reason https://reason.com/2014/03/08/no-thanks-cpac-this-libertarian-wont-att/ 2014-03-08 As Glenn Beck was bashing Sarvis as a GPS-installing LINO on his show,, his muckraking journalists at TheBlaze "revealed" that Sarvis was "bankrolled" by an "Obama bundler." https://web.archive.org/web/20220819095830/https://reason.com/2014/03/08/no-thanks-cpac-this-libertarian-wont-att/ en rare en female surnames. Derived terms en Glenn County Glenn Dale en unisex given names Norwegian Proper noun no proper noun no male English, popular in the 1970s and the 1980s Swedish Proper noun c sv male English; popular in the 1960s