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.
noun. a gauging of the spread, or dispersion, of scores within a sample, whereby a small variance implies very similar scores, all near the sample mean, and a large variance implies more scores at a larger distance from the mean and potentially spread over a bigger range.