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.
In the 1850s, the term was applied to a range of colors or hue, for example by Thomas De Quincey, who wrote  Porphyry, I have heard, runs through as large a gamut of hues as marble.. In color theory, the gamut of a device or process is that portion of the color space that can be represented, or reproduced.