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Actually there are a lot of experts who think Nancy was first a pet form of Annes and only later applied to Ann. That would explain where the -s- sound comes from in Nancy. Originally the pet form of Ann would have been Nanny and of Agnes/Annes would have been Nancy, but as many people in England completely confused Ann and Annes, there being many examples of the same woman referred to as Ann in one record and Annes in another, Nancy came to be applied to Ann as well as Annes.