Nin

[ nin ]

/ nɪn /

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A·na·ïs

[uh-nahy-uhs], /əˈnaɪ əs/, 1903–77, U.S. novelist and diarist.

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Let’s start with some etymology: What are the origins of the typographical word “bracket”?

But in the end, there was no one person who could complete Anaïs Nin.
‘Mirages’: Anaïs Nin’s Intimate, Unexpurgated Diaries|Lizzie Crocker|October 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Vidal slept with Anaïs Nin and enjoyed close friendships with women including Claire Bloom and Joanne Woodward.
How Gay Was Gore Vidal?|Tim Teeman|July 31, 2013|DAILY BEAST
I write in Heroines: “The disgust for Anaïs Nin is a disgust for the girls with their LiveJournals.”
Interview: ‘Heroines’ Author Kate Zambreno|Michele Filgate|November 23, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The slayer may have been a Set-like demon--perhaps Nin-shach, who appears to have symbolized the destroying influence of the sun.
Myths of Babylonia and Assyria|Donald A. Mackenzie

Thus neen, is sometimes rendered ne, or nin, and sometimes nim.
Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River, in 1820|Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
He jess walk right straight inter de bu'nin', roarin' flameses!
East Angels|Constance Fenimore Woolson
Piccaninny, Pickaninny, pik′a-nin-i, n. a little child: an African or negro child.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R)|Various
Sometime hit 'ud be a rose, sometime a pansy; but allers a posy ob some kind 'ud go on dat man's table ebbery mo'nin'.
Bee and Butterfly|Lucy Foster Madison