I was thinking, if someone was named Stinky at birth, would calling him Arko be a stretch? I wouldn’t.
What's in a name?
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Mike M
...but this one IS cracked.
My dad went by Mick so to distinguish between us I went by Mike though many of my own friends called me Mick too. Pretty much all my family go by shortened names including
Aunts, Peg(Margaret), Mamy(Mary) and Kit(Katherine)
Uncles, Jim(James), Art(Arthur)
One I did wonder about people using was Paudgie(pronounced podgie) for Patrick and I knew a fella went by Degsy(Derek) from Liverpool though being from Liverpool may explain it
Aunts, Peg(Margaret), Mamy(Mary) and Kit(Katherine)
Uncles, Jim(James), Art(Arthur)
One I did wonder about people using was Paudgie(pronounced podgie) for Patrick and I knew a fella went by Degsy(Derek) from Liverpool though being from Liverpool may explain it
Mike M
...but this one IS cracked.
No that was BilkoRemember "Billy 7" was a Bob Dylan song. Perhaps that character liked Arko.
My dad‘s given name was William but he was often called Guillaume, the French equivalent being from Quebec. Both my siblings and I were called by derivatives of our given names and my Aunt Dorothy was always Dodé.
I'm a Richard, and always hated the name Dick. At primary school one of the teachers started calling me Dickie, I asked him politely to stop doing so. He didn't so I called him by his first name. He stopped. Idiot. I've never quite worked out how the name came about but the likeliest explanation seems to be that it rhymes with Rick, which is a recognisable shorter form of Richard and back in the dim and distant, people liked rhymes.
Charlie Sheen was billed as Carlos Estevez either in Machete or the sequel.
Carl
Karl
Carroll
Chaz
are all forms of Charles.
Bill for William always puzzled me. Then there is Trip for the III. The last most puzzling to me.
You can spell it "Luxury Yacht" but pronounce it "Thrushwarbler Mangrove."
My mother went by "Peg" because her birth name initials were P. E. G., so that's at least explicable. Her first name as Pearl and she hated it.
My wife is named Peggy but that's literally the name on her birth certificate. From Minnesota, though, not Texas
Without looking it up, I think that's his real birth name.
I checked it. His 2 brothers, 1 sister & his uncle all go by their birth names
In second semester Spanish in college, the professor wanted us to go with Spanish sounding names. A lot of names have a Spanish equivalent- Owen is not one of them. It was known that my wife is Mex-Am, so he asked me what she called me. I flippantly said “Pendejo”. After everyone stopped laughing, that became my name for the semester.
Owen Bawn
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On your side they're called Willie until their Celtic consciousness is awakened (usually by a girl) at which point Willie becomes Liam.
Note that I'm not touching the low hanging off color fruit so obviously presented by the name Willie. You're welcome.
Mike M
...but this one IS cracked.
I'm so far south of the peace line it's OK to be called Billy. My neighbor is called Billy.
Slightly off topic...
My grandfather was born in 1906 and raised on a farm. It was very common that a hired man would live with the family that he was hired to work with. They provided him room and board plus paid him, that was the deal. My grandfather's first name (let's say) was Luther. For whatever reason the hired man began calling him Bill. His folks began calling him Bill, so did his friends and teachers. And that became his name that he was forever referred to as - Bill.
My grandfather was born in 1906 and raised on a farm. It was very common that a hired man would live with the family that he was hired to work with. They provided him room and board plus paid him, that was the deal. My grandfather's first name (let's say) was Luther. For whatever reason the hired man began calling him Bill. His folks began calling him Bill, so did his friends and teachers. And that became his name that he was forever referred to as - Bill.
Owen Bawn
Garden party cupcake scented
The peace line runs through every human heart.
In light of the present discussion...
I know somebody named William, gone by Billy since birth. Grand parents from N Ireland, Protestant. Grew up in the US, Catholic(parents doing). No politics intended, but should I just consult the magic 8 ball to make sense of this?
(somewhat serious, curious about Irish ancestry)
Owen Bawn
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Mícheálín
Stick with the 8 ball brother Irish history and politics are as clear as mud
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