What's the difference between nanna and nanny?

Nanna


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He met community groups, including the Knitting Nannas Against Gas, which succeeded in forcing the Coalition to suspend Metgasco’s coal seam gas licence at Bentley.
  • (2) Extracts from different plant parts of Amorpha fruticosa, A. nanna, and A. canescens gave several spots with color and Rf values similar to those of Cannabis sativa extract.
  • (3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Knitting Nannas Against Gas wait for NSW Labor leader Luke Foley in Bentley.
  • (4) I feel like the snake handler on Blue Peter … the last time I saw something like this, it was at dead Fat Nanna’s house, across the bottom of the front door, as a draught excluder, with two buttons for eyes.” She finds that she spends the entire time thinking only about what he’s thinking.
  • (5) Sulphasalazine was first produced nearly 50 years ago through the inspiration of a Swedish doctor, Dr Nanna Svartz.
  • (6) "Most of my family are here tonight," Campbell said, "my brothers, sister, mam and dad, my nanna, my littleboy, my partner, Leo and Lindsey, and her family too.
  • (7) My heart has been ripped apart, Lisa you really were such an amazing woman, the perfect mum to India and Lauran, and the coolest nanna to Jayden.
  • (8) The official line of argument against clinical obstetrics consisted of a queer and highly questionable mélange of ideology and distored facts brought forward by the so-called "Reichsgesundheitsführer" Dr. Leonardo Conti and his mother, Mrs Nanna Conti as head of the Party-sponsored Midwives Association.

Nanny


Definition:

  • (n.) A diminutive of Ann or Anne, the proper name.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I remember the blood pouring across the floor and the screaming of the nanny looking after our boys."
  • (2) David Cameron has made a strong defence of his decision to employ a Nepalese nanny, while at the same time refusing to say that his government will meet its target to cut the number of net migrants to the UK to fewer than 100,000 by next year.
  • (3) Wise, she says, did the bulk of the childcare during filming of Nanny McPhee, though Gaia did sometimes join her on set.
  • (4) A more benign version of the thesis – that Siri might have changed his own mind – can be glimpsed, in comedic form, behind Habemus Papam ( We Have a Pope in the UK), the 2011 film by Nanni Moretti, in which a pontiff goes on the run post-election to avoid taking up office.
  • (5) Although the guidance is not a statutory code and leaves room for doctors' professional judgment, both the government and Labour are wary of "nanny state" approaches.
  • (6) Bermondsey asks: Could you explain to the British public why 14 year old children are thrown into prison for 3 years for writing nonsense on Facebook and why someone looses their home and goes to jail for doing a nanny job while receiving £70 week in social security while Fred Goodman lives in his holiday home in Barbados for 3 months a year?
  • (7) At the Woodland Pytchley Hunt, an experienced nanny will be on hand to accompany small children today, and at the Surrey Union a prize of £20 was offered for the "best turned out under 16 year old".
  • (8) They are dismissed as the work of liberal interferers and apostles of the nanny state.
  • (9) The Good Care Guide results reveal that children receive better quality of care than their elderly relatives, with 88% of nurseries and 91% of nanny agencies achieving top marks in terms of quality of care – in contrast to 78% of care homes.
  • (10) Thompson, best known for her acting roles in films such as Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually and Nanny McPhee, also wrote many of those screenplays.
  • (11) The couple's son Moshe, two, was rescued by his nanny.
  • (12) But raising the kind of money required to defeat the soda industry in a fight over taxes seemed impossible – until Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire mayor of New York City and food nanny to the world, stepped in.
  • (13) And Mummy said darling, do you remember Bodrum when Nanny walked into pre-lunch drinks on the gulet, of course everyone was incredibly kind, bringing her a Tizer and some After Eights before the men threw her in the sea, the gentlest of hints but basically she never left the lower decks again?
  • (14) As Labour called for complete transparency over the nanny, Downing Street issued a statement saying Gita Lima had been awarded British citizenship after David Cameron became prime minister in 2010.
  • (15) "The government has to be much more nanny state in terms of policing the food industry, taxing snack food, taxing fizzy drinks, banning fizzy drinks, banning sugary foods, and not just in school dinners but also in work canteens and hospital food.
  • (16) She had been looking for a job for nine months but had just landed a position as a nanny for a family on the Upper East Side, starting in January.
  • (17) Whitehall is bracing itself for a potentially damning report from Sir Alan Budd tomorrow into events surrounding the fast-tracking of a visa application for the nanny of David Blunkett's then lover, Kimberly Quinn.
  • (18) (I later hear that Mercy has been taken by a nanny to a secret location in the north, ready for the adoption.)
  • (19) Best pope Michel Piccoli, in Nanni Moretti's otherwise awful Habemus Papam .
  • (20) The basis of this change has not been published, and yet it will apparently enable considerable funds to be showered on couples with a combined income of up to £300,000 , and serious nannying bills.