By Harry Mount for the Daily Mail.

Erica meaning oed. In the meantime not far off from where the battle was a young and fair maiden. OED does not record any variant uh oh but only ohoh oh-oh nor the presence of a glottal stop even in the BE pronunciation. RIP the OED.

In short although there are exceptions the OED still characterizes the fanny that means genitals as chiefly British English and the one that means the butt as chiefly US In case youre wondering the OED also labels the noun fanny pack first recorded in 1971 as a North American usage the equivalent of the British bumbag 1951. The Latin word erica means heath or broom2 It is believed that Pliny adapted erica from Ancient Greek ἐρείκη3 The expected Anglo-Latin pronunciation ᵻˈraɪkə may be given in dictionaries OED. 1 archaic An unmarried girl or young woman.

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She was humming to herself an enchanting melody and the young Count stood there entranced by the fair young maiden. Erica but ˈɛrᵻkə is more commonly heard. The Latin word erica means heath or broom.

The given name Erika Erica or Ericka is a feminine form of Eric deriving from the Old Norse name Eiríkr or Eríkr in Eastern Scandinavia due to monophthongization. 1 Having no one else present. The 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.