Comments for the name Linnet

Comments for LINNET:

In Anne Tyler's awesome novel, "The Amateur Marriage", Linnet is the name of Michael and Pauline's daughter, pronounced "LIN-net" (she goes by Lindy).

-- sandrinchen  4/15/2007

From the American Heritage Dictionary, about the etymology of the Linnet bird:

[Obsolete French linette, from Old French, from lin, flax (from its feeding on flax seed), from Latin lînum.]

-- earthnut  9/13/2007

Linnet Ridgeway is a character in Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile.

-- Anonymous User  6/17/2008

A very sweet meaning. The name looks pretty, but sounds close to Lynette, which I dislike as it is so dated.

-- vomiting  6/12/2009

I assumed this was pronounced 'Lih-NAY', which is nice.

-- Aureliano  6/4/2010

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