Names and short forms

Why is the short form for Richard, Dick?

But for Robert, is it Bob?

And for William, it is Bill?

And for Paul, it is Paul?

These are questions we need to resolve.

Montrose Wrote:

My father's name is John, and he goes by Francis.
My name is John, and I go by Jack.
If I had had a son, I would have named him John and called him - John.

Mine's Brian, but I get called all kind of crap!

I have heard of a boy named Sue!!!!

I thought there was no shortened form for George until I got phone calls asking for Geo.

Go figure

Geo(rge) Herschell

Montrose Wrote:

The Wiz Wrote:

I am Richard and I have no clue why they call us Dick for short other than my old childhood friends calling me dickhead.

My cousin's name is Richard and we all call him Dick. He has a son also named Richard and we call him Little Dick.

My name is Paul but my friends call me Paul. Paul

Well my name is Michelle and for years the teachers called Michael when they took role, now someone tell me why a teacher couldn't tell the difference and get it right?

mabie1978 Wrote:

The one that blows me away is "Peggy" for Margaret. Our son, James, has always been called "Ted."

All female :). I spent a lot of time in the principals office for skipping class, but yet never actually got into trouble for it since I told him I would answer "present" when the teacher was smart enough to call me by the right name :).


I agree about the Peggy thing, I could never get how Margaret became Peggy.




JackMG Wrote:

mabie1978 Wrote:

How abbreviations of the last name? I "became" Sunny early on in my working career (still in Germany) because of my fairly long last name, and it stuck. Rather unpronounceable last name, at least here in the US. Very few people even know my real first name, and even my business cards say "Sunny Sonnenrein".
:)

My name is Tito....I wont say what people call me for short....

A girl at High school was named Virginia, we called her Virgin for short but not for long !!.

LOL, I hadn't heard that one in a while...

neilh Wrote:

A friend of mine said, "Old John must like me, he called me Bud" I had to let him down and tell him the John calls every Bud unless he can remember their name. John is 89 and has called me Dave for over fifty years. He'll probably start calling me Bud pretty soon.

My name is David but most people call me "Jerk". hmmmmmm

I don't understand it.

YA, ya probably do!

"Well you can call me Ray, you can call me Jay, you can call me Sonny....."