Extensions to pet and proper names, such as the ie in laddie or lassie, or the y in names like Robby or Donny, surfaced in Scotland around 1400 and became popularized as endearments by the poems of Robert Bums (1759-1796).
This collection of shirts runs the gamut of color. The definition of gamut is the entire range or extent of something. An example of gamut is a clothing collection that includes every color of the rainbow. gamut. gamut.
A TV (or TV signal's) color gamut is all the color that's possible for it to create. The greenest green, the bluest blue and the reddest red (and by extension, yellow, cyan, magenta, and so on). The easiest way to visualize this is with a triangle. Check out the image at the top of the page. Go ahead, I'll wait.