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and other names too: Jack from John, Peggy from Margaret, Dick from Richard, Bob from Robert, etc. Just curious when I was wondering how the got the word Bill to mean payment or check. Were the originators not satisfied with their names that they decided to give themselves a name they would actually want to be called?
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01-12-2004, 09:38 PM
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Bill
Short form of WILLIAM. The change in the initial consonant may have been influenced by an earlier Irish pronunciation of the name
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01-12-2004, 10:01 PM
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I have NO idea.
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01-12-2004, 11:37 PM
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So it was originally pronounced Billiam? [img]redface.gif[/img]
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01-13-2004, 04:23 PM
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Maybe its 1st and 2nd name?
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Richard = shorten to Rich, pronounce with a hard 'ch', and voila - and I think that some older writing styles have 'D's and 'R's looking exactly the same. Bob would be exactly the same story as Bill - shorten it, apply an accent which changes the initial sound, and voila. \ Jack from John - maybe they thought that "this is the house that John built" didn't have the same ring to it? Peggy from Margarette - "well, everyone else is shortening their names, so I will to." |
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01-14-2004, 06:24 AM
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The one that I've always found odd is how do you get Buff/Buffy from Elizabeth!!
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But then again many things change with pronounciation differences and language variations etc. |
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01-14-2004, 11:50 AM
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Jack and John are two completely different names though
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I'm gonna name my kid Richard Head and let him suffer all his life [img]tongue.gif[/img]
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