spic and span

Neat and clean. A “spick” was a nail (as in “spike”), “span” was a wood shaving, and a new wooden object had shiny spicks in it and fresh spans around it. Over the years the meaning of newness was replaced by that of something fresh and clean (as a new object usually was).

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Nadiyya	-	Arabic
Aatos	AH:-tos	Finnish
Phunihel	-	Biblical Latin
Brion	BRIE-ən	English
Reiner	RIE-ner (German)	German, Ancient Germanic
Charlotte	shar-LOT (French), SHAHR-lət (English), shahr-LAW-tə (German), shah-LOT (Swedish), shahr-LAWT-tə (Dutch)	French, English, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Dutch