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Example sentences for: nan
How can you use “nan” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
Rhonda Lipkin (Maryland), Victor Geminiani (Hawaii), Nan Heald (Maine) and Mike Genz (LSC) presented this session.
Last year alone, the agency aided more than 14,000 people, according to Nan Heald, who has been with Pine Tree Legal since 1985 and directed it since 1990.
See March Comments at 101 (comment of Nan Schivone and Phyllis Holmen, Georgia Legal Services Program).
Thus Abigail to Nab, Ambrose to Nam, Anne to Nan or Nancy, Edward to Ned, Eleanor or Helen to Nell, Humphrey to Nump , Isaac to Nykin, Isabel to Nib, Obadiah to Nobs , and Oliver to Noll .
These nicknames originated as possessives, since Middle English words beginning with a vowel or silent h took the possessive mine instead of my ; so instead of my Anne, people said mine Anne, which was reinterpreted as my Nan, just as the animal once called an eft or an ewt is now known as a newt.