Every time I turned up the volume, he got quieter.

@izzat_izzudin7287

2 жыл бұрын

Same here

@Amadea27

2 жыл бұрын

Aaah. And I thought I accidentally turned down the volume...

@wmason1961

2 жыл бұрын

I tried to listen. I eventually gave up. Was the video any good? I wouldn't know. I could not hear it at full volume.

@DeleleleleWHOOP

2 жыл бұрын

this

@citruscampbell

2 жыл бұрын

LMAO I WAS TURNING MY VOLUME UP WHILE READING THIS HAHAHA

“Miley” Cyrus was born “Destiny Hope Cyrus” but her dad (Billy Ray Cyrus) called her “Smiley” because she smiled so much, which became “‘Miley” - which she eventually changed her real name to a few years ago

@JoshuaC34

2 жыл бұрын

Darn celebrities and their weird baby names! *shakes fish aggressively* I'm looking at you X-Æ-A-12!

@JoshuaC34

2 жыл бұрын

Whoops I typed fish instead of fist somehow, but I like the idea of some old man shaking a fish instead of his fist at some kids some I'm going to keep it.

@MrElionor

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaC34 Thanks for the image

@JennRighter

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaC34 I think shaking the fish aggressively is more impactful than shaking your fist. For me, anyway.

@mkshffr4936

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoshuaC34 Visions of Veggie Tales.

We once hired a guy based solely on his name. His name was Richard. Richard Slocum. I had no idea parents could be so cruel.

@thelizzievb

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god 😂

@iwest484

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@pdmayton

Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid there was a girl in my class named Ruby Cox. That's bad enough, but her Mom worked at the school as a 'lunch lady'. Her name....Edith.

@JaredGriffiths2000

Жыл бұрын

There was animator who worked Disney who was called Dick Huemer. Lol!

@viscountrainbows2857

8 ай бұрын

Are You Being Served? memories flooding in. "I have to get home as soon as possible to take care of my 🐱"

This basically makes my family seem stupid...here's why: My great-grandmother is named Margaret, her daughter, also Margaret. My grandmother, Margaret, has a sister named Daisy, and a Cousin (that is also a sister-in-law) named Pearl. My mother, is Peggy. Basically I have like, 5 or more relatives within 3 generations that all have the same damn name.

@k.stewart007

2 жыл бұрын

I knew two sisters called nicole and collette. They had no idea they basically had the same name. Both devised from nicollette of course.

@katsuki427

2 жыл бұрын

The boys on my father's side are all R names: Robert, Richard, Russell, and Ronald.

@oldfogey4679

2 жыл бұрын

Disdon in my family we have Marguerite all with different middle names! So some of them go by their middle names! One was told by a teacher that her name had to be Margaret as Marguerite doesn't exist! One goes by the nickname of coco as a fat infant it was said she resembled a coconut!

@Gungye25

2 жыл бұрын

This is my brother Daryl and this is my other brother Daryl

@alexandraeverafter1015

2 жыл бұрын

@@oldfogey4679 my real name is Margaret but I have been called Gretchen all my life. As a relatively new empty nester, I recently decided Gretchen hasn’t suited me too well, and I always liked my middle name, Alexandra. Thus, I am in the transition of switching to my middle name, which rolls off my tongue more easily.

If anyone has seen total drama, then they know quite well that “Big O” is a perfectly acceptable nickname for Owen

@christianzombievampire

2 жыл бұрын

I had a friend named Owen and I would just call him things rhyming with Owen. If he was walking, I’d call him Goin’, if he was getting taller, Growin’, if he was drinking water, Flowin’, etc

@georgesikorski9891

2 жыл бұрын

And "Little O" (for children obviously)

@3173_Delta

2 жыл бұрын

The moment I saw the name and challanged myself to make a nickname for it my brain yelled "Owwie" lmao

@Piccle

2 жыл бұрын

My name is Owen and I'm an American but I live in Norway, and due to stereotypes they call me racist

@meredithgreenslade1965

2 жыл бұрын

I call my neighbour Owee. It seems to have taken off. Aussie humour.

Every Claire I've known has responded to the nickname " Claire Bear"

@larrytoons6220

2 жыл бұрын

My name is Larry. Some people call me Lar, mostly from my family. And I as well respond to "Lar Bear". They aren't alone.

@meredithgreenslade1965

2 жыл бұрын

Can't imagine my Grandmother being called that. But cute

@spiralpython1989

2 жыл бұрын

I know a handful of Claires who use/ get ‘Caz’/ ‘Cazza’. And one Claire who uses Luna- from the Debussy music, Clare De La Lune. It has always interested me, how many single syllable names become extended.

@alaynaa.09

2 жыл бұрын

ikr like there's this girl on yt named claire who calls her fans "claire bears"

@SC-wk2mt

2 жыл бұрын

@@larrytoons6220 A lot of Sarahs also respond to "Sar bear"

Came here needing answers why “Jack” is a common nickname for “John”… still seeking answers

@Gracehasyoutube

2 жыл бұрын

John Ron Ronald Ronaldo Randy Mandy Manny Manuel Immanuel Im Tim Jim Jimbob James Jace Jack

@Gracehasyoutube

2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome

@juliehedberg3293

2 жыл бұрын

Lol. Nice 😅

@felicialovesnkotb

2 жыл бұрын

Johannes (Latin for John)-->Jan (Dutch variant) "by addition of the common suffix -kin we get Jankin, which as a result of French nasalization becomes Jackin [this is the same nasalization that gets us Harry from Henry], and was finally shortened to Jack."-from wordpress

@maccatarquin7098

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard of people being called "John" after a relative called "Jack"

In Spanish, we have two particullarly interesting nicknames: "Paco" and "Pepe". "Paco" comes from "Francisco", becouse of the famous saint called Francis of Assisi, who was the "PA"ter "CO"munitatis (father of the community) of the Franciscans. "Pepe" derives from "José". Yes, we are so bold that we made a nickname out of a four letter name. Deal with it. Anyways, this happens becouse of the fact that "San José" (Saint Joseph) was the LEGAL but not BIOLOGICAL father of Jesus, the og. And so, they would reffer to him as "P"ater "P"utativus, which means "alleged father".

@EmpaGalactica

2 жыл бұрын

I thought Pepe was from the Italian name Giuseppe

@pietromilano9933

2 жыл бұрын

This looks like folk etymology to me. In Italian we have the name Giuseppe, which gets shortened to Peppe or Beppe. In our case, you could see how it could happen, so it is probably something similar happening in Spanish

@avo1dant

2 жыл бұрын

Pepe from Jose is also used in the Philippines. Our national hero is named Jose Rizal and his nickname is Pepe. My dad is also named Jose but his nickname is Joey. I think Paco for Francisco is also used here.

@JoseRodriguez-ey7ju

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmpaGalactica yes obviously in Italian pepe comes from giuseppe, but in Spanish pepe comes from josé

@anaritasantiago6581

2 жыл бұрын

That’s really interesting.

The queen of Denmark is named Margrethe. Her late french husband called her Daisy. I always wondered why, and now I know :-D

@edgarespino3005

2 жыл бұрын

Also “margarita” also means daisy in Spanish too

@VeraDonna

2 жыл бұрын

@@edgarespino3005 and Rita is a name and also a short form of the italian name Margherita.

@freakytostadacartoon

2 жыл бұрын

Other nicknames for Margherethe are Margo ,Magda and Maggie

@lauritsallinpoulsen4250

2 жыл бұрын

Samme her

@Furienna

2 жыл бұрын

Her grandmother, Princess Margaret of Connaught (later known as Crown Princess Margareta of Sweden), was also nick-named Daisy, so it's probably a family tradition.

So in Simpsons, Maggie is Marge Jr.

@DarwinskiYT

2 жыл бұрын

What

@j.s.7335

2 жыл бұрын

Marge is Marjorie. Only Maggie is Margaret. Edit: Aha, Marjorie is just a form of Margaret. Thanks!

@Furienna

2 жыл бұрын

@@j.s.7335 Marjorie is actually a form of Margaret as well.

@TheAlexSchmidt

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed, Matt Groening named Marge and Maggie after his mother and sister, who were both named Margaret.

@thelordnaevis4946

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheAlexSchmidt Marge is Marjorie tho

I don’t think i’ve ever known a single Claire that hasn’t been called “Claire Bear” as a nickname at least once, it’s super popular

As an Ian, I didn't hold out much hope for a nickname until I started working in kitchens. The Spanish variation of Ian is Ignacio, the nickname of which is Nacho. I still respond to Nacho.

@prapanthebachelorette6803

6 ай бұрын

Interesting

"Nacho" is a nickname for Ignacio.

@zakibbott

2 жыл бұрын

U been watchin better call Saul

@sheebeebug

2 жыл бұрын

“NACHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo.....!”

@NoodleErik

2 жыл бұрын

NACHOOOO LIBREEEE

@ericktellez7632

2 жыл бұрын

@@zakibbott No, why?

@lysaali50

2 жыл бұрын

best. movie. EVER

Joshy-Woshy? Back in school he had a lad we called Joshie-Squashie and he would beat the devil out of us if we called him that

@palkia192

2 жыл бұрын

Lol I can’t say that I’d blame him.

@dragonoftheeast7572

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad he did

@connorjohnson5744

2 жыл бұрын

Almost as if he squashed you

@christopherc7322

2 жыл бұрын

So we had a kid at my school and his nickname was Tripp but we nicknamed his nickname and it was Trippy-Wippy and if you called him the he would joshie-Squashie you

@solace2731

2 жыл бұрын

This is sincerely the most British comment I seen in youtube, bloody hell.

Some of my friends and associates call me “Dolf” for a short “Adolfo”. However, when my aunt visited the states from Mexico once upon my childhood years, and nicknamed me “chimi”, because I loved eating El Monterey’s frozen chimichangas, it has stuck ever since.😅

@kaazdov2536

2 жыл бұрын

ma chum Chimi

@Matthewsrevenge-ud4bd

2 жыл бұрын

Id just call you Hitler

@MorganRyo

2 жыл бұрын

@@Matthewsrevenge-ud4bd bruh.wav

@iiiDeuueaughiii

2 жыл бұрын

@@Matthewsrevenge-ud4bd I can’t even begin to tell you how unoriginal that is. Try again buddy😆

Had a friend who had the “Two Emily’s”problem in a class. They called the other girl E 2 and called friend E 1, which after being said too fast enough times turned into “Ewok”. Nickname are weird.

@MortanAMrk

11 ай бұрын

We use surname to differentiate like Emily A or Emily B

"How did your father come up with Nick as your name?" "He just came up with it one day, while shaving."

@erilassila409

2 жыл бұрын

He nicked himself? 😂

@D4rkRCS

2 жыл бұрын

Hope the brother isn't named "Bruce"

Katherine has quite a few nicknames. Kath, Kathy, Kate, Katy, Kitty, Kat, Reen, Rina, Trina, Katrina, Katrina, Trini and then spell some of those with a C instead.

@katjagolden893

2 жыл бұрын

My name “Katja” is equivalent to the name Katherine.

@ithydoodles

2 жыл бұрын

My name can have some of those nicknames and is is not any form of Katherine . Tereana.

@miniveedub

2 жыл бұрын

@CheetCat well spotted

@trinchen1414

2 жыл бұрын

my dad's nickname for me was Trinchen when I was a child. the "-chen" is a german diminutive

@amberlon

2 жыл бұрын

Katrina x 2 haha

The one that's always made me giggle a bit is how we get Chuck from Charles.

@illuminaticonfirmed1389

2 жыл бұрын

charles entertainment cheese

@IntrovertedGoose

2 жыл бұрын

it makes me chuckle

@toomanyopinions8353

6 ай бұрын

My guess is it went Charles -> Charlie -> Chuckie -> Chuck

My name is interesting because "Shawn" is the anglicized version of "Sean," which is the Irish version of "John," which, depending on whether it's short for "Jonathan," could derive from one of two unrelated Hebrew names. So basically, my name was translated back and forth so many times, it became an entirely different name.

Patrick: "I don't think nicknames are going away any time soon." Me: you got that right, P. Money...

@appleciderhorror12

2 жыл бұрын

plz don't p on your money - cashiers

@impossiblewarthog

Жыл бұрын

Patrick - Pat - Rick - dick

In Thai, everyone is given a nickname by their parents at birth. Back before internet and globalization, Thai nickname use to be just a short good meaning words such as porn(might seems weird but it means blessing), or short general vocab such as animal, color and adjective that can describe a person(ex: Nong= Bighead, Yong=Tall, Ouan= Fat). Nowadays, Nickname can be anything especially random English words such as Gift, Bank(My nickname), Beer, Lift, Garfield, Guitar, Ozone, Sand, France. Normal English nickname is also increasingly popular. Sorry for my English.

@thelordnaevis4946

2 жыл бұрын

I heard somewhere the they use nicknames cuz their real names are too long

@Ineedtospendlesstimeonyoutube

2 жыл бұрын

@@thelordnaevis4946 Yeah we do. Nobody uses real name because it's too long, we use nickname all the time

@smolgok384

2 жыл бұрын

Your english is great. Dont apologise for that

@ankokunokayoubi

2 жыл бұрын

I recall having a Thai public figure nicknamed Mobile. Yup, that's correct.

@Ineedtospendlesstimeonyoutube

2 жыл бұрын

@@ankokunokayoubi That's quite common name actually

I have two nieces called Ruby. Nicknames for them are Roo/Ru, Bee and Roobs.

@ender7278

Жыл бұрын

What about Rhubarb?

I have a friend named Oran so I call him Orange, sometimes Tangerine or Easy-peeler too

@blucatt1k

2 жыл бұрын

I hope he likes Pokemon

Apparently my great grandma was named Margaret, but her sister (a toddler at the time) couldn't say it right, so she said "Maggot". My great-great grandparents changed her name real quick. So... Yeah

@kirabowie

2 жыл бұрын

Awe... that's like how my Aunty when she was little called her one brother Eggie cuz she couldn't say Errol. XD

@MerkhVision

2 жыл бұрын

Awww Maggot is kinda a really great in-family nickname haha

@thetrickster9885

2 жыл бұрын

She should have said midget XD

@alestane2

2 жыл бұрын

@@MerkhVision That's the name of a brave mushroom farmer, too.

@wendychavez5348

2 жыл бұрын

What a heartbreaking though amusing tale! My mom's oldest sister is Margaret, and I think Maggot stayed in the family as a nickname for her. They were raised on a farm in northern New Mexico so I never questioned it too deeply.

Both of my grandmothers were named Gertrude, one liking the nick name Gertie, and hated Trudy, where the other loved Trudy and didn't care for Gertie!

@MsGbergh

2 жыл бұрын

At least it made it easier to identify them.

@oldfogey4679

2 жыл бұрын

Douglas its nice that ur grandmas liked the different name derivatives! Made it less confusing!

@CsprsSassyHrly

2 жыл бұрын

And here I am, loving both Trudy and Gertie but not liking Gertrude much.

@AtarahDerek

2 жыл бұрын

I bet they got along famously.

@marissajay6468

2 жыл бұрын

Rue would be a cute modern literary nickname/honorary name for Gertrude. Tru(e)/Truly could also work too!!! Edie (pronunced like ee-dee), Dee, or DeeDee/DD would be a cute one as well!!!

My real name is Scott, as a child I was called "Scooter" I'm in my 40s now and have had Dreadlocks since I was 17, people started calling me "Dredlox". I'm pretty fine with all of those. Honestly I really don't care what you call me, I just decide what I answer to. *shrugs*

I'm from south america, and here, the people called "Ignacio" (kinda common name) are usually called "Nacho" (yeah, like the snacks) which comes from the pronunciation used in the latter part of the name, even though i think going from "Nah-See-Oh" to "Nah-Cho" its kind of a weird strech...

@AtarahDerek

2 жыл бұрын

They're borrowing from Italian.

@kr460n

Жыл бұрын

The snack actually got its name from a restaurant owner named Ignacio who put cheese on sliced fried corn tortillas and sold them as a "fancy" appetizer

@anormaluser5750

Жыл бұрын

@@AtarahDerek oh i had no idea, thanks

@anormaluser5750

Жыл бұрын

@@kr460n thats so funny, Nacho's my idol now

I have a cousin named Owen who I call “O” and when he was younger “o-e-o”. Also, Irish and Australian people can make a nickname for everyone.

@kylewilley9535

2 жыл бұрын

Even us "Kyle"s? Never had one, myself.

@keithharding346

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylewilley9535 I had a friend Eoghan once we called Yoggin, cos thats how a friend thought it was pronounced. lol

@kirabowie

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylewilley9535 Kyle, your new nickname is Kylie Willey or Kylie for short. :D Or you can have a nickname that totally has nothing to do with your name. Mine is "Bowie" which actually comes from Bo Peep cuz I have a collection of lamb plushies. Or my sister's nickname which is Lambie... XD

@owenofhb8319

2 жыл бұрын

Same for me except I am the cousin

@smolgok384

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylewilley9535 Kylo is your aussie nickname

i'm alexander but most people call me xan, it's just taken directly from the middle of the name which i love.

@katie7308

2 жыл бұрын

We have lots at ‘Alexanders’ in my family,...Sasha, Sandy, Xander and even an actual Alex 🤣

@superbird4351

2 жыл бұрын

Anyone call you “Xanax” yet?

@41-Haiku

2 жыл бұрын

Wow! My 13-year-old nephew is named Xan (short for Alexander, but his parents chose his nickname as well), and I had never encountered another example.

@rancidtown

2 жыл бұрын

My names francis but my friends call me honk and honku I dknt even know

@n1thmusic229

2 жыл бұрын

My Name 's Alexander but I'm Alex or My surname to all my friends but my brother occasionally calles me Xander

My kids are all mentioned in this video. Maisie is a nickname of Margaret that you missed, it’s a Scottish version. I’ve also got Ruby & Owen, both of whom have nicknames in the family. Ruby has become Rubles, and Owen is Winnie.

"Henceforth, those named Henry will no longer be allowed to call themselves Hank. That's just too much of a stretch."

I have a story I think you will love. In Morocco (and maybe other parts of North Africa) one nickname for Mohamed is Simo. The "mo" comes from Mohamed, but the "si" started as a honorific. The interesting part is this: as far as I can tell, si is not an Arabic word, but a coruption of the French "c'est," meaning "this is." But people started adding "si" to official names, such that now, people are named "Si Mohamed," litterally meaning "This is Mohamed." Anyway, "Si Mohamed" became "Si Mo".

@MerkhVision

2 жыл бұрын

That’s really cool!

@forestcity4217

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, thats interesting

@jestophersan

2 жыл бұрын

are u Filipino? they use "Si" all the time 😅

@petermanou9083

2 жыл бұрын

@@jestophersan I don't think it is related. Si is Spanish, and the Philippines were Spanish colony. The Si in this case comes from French "c'est."

@jestophersan

2 жыл бұрын

@@petermanou9083 but we got more Siya for he/she is, Sila for they. how wonderful words evolve

Matthew can be shortened to Hugh (Hew), which I really like. Also my partner's name is Andrew, and when he does something gross I call him Ew. 🤷‍♀️

@therandomname69420

2 жыл бұрын

Nice lol

@YT-Observer

2 жыл бұрын

Andrew andy and drew

@savioblanc

2 жыл бұрын

Huh... so Hugh Jackman and Hugh Grant are Mathew Jackman and Mathew Grant?? Mindblown

@ad-skyobsidion4267

2 жыл бұрын

The worst thing she can say is now :

@PrometheanRising

2 жыл бұрын

Oh.. that's interesting... there were several people in my family named Hugh Matthews.

Might be limited to urban settings, but guys who are "the third" of their name (i.e. John Smith III) are nicknamed "Trip" for "triple"

“There are at least a billion people” -Name Explain, 2021

@IntrovertedGoose

2 жыл бұрын

lol

Never heard about "Emma" being a nickname for "Emily". Might explain actress Emma Watson's problem of often being referred to or addressed as "Emily Watson".

@vaclav_fejt

2 жыл бұрын

I think that's simply the confusion with the actual Emily Watson, who was still in the 90's the only famous Em- Watson and still has more awards.

@rahbeeuh

2 жыл бұрын

Emma Stone's name is Emily Stone

@EmelyPhan

2 жыл бұрын

@@rahbeeuh cause there is someone with that name in the same industry or something

@camelopardalis84

2 жыл бұрын

@@vaclav_fejt I just realise I phrased that as if I disagreed with you. I don't.

@rahbeeuh

2 жыл бұрын

@@EmelyPhan yes

Fun fact: "Margareth" translates to Portuguese as "Margarida", which means daisy, the flower.

@omargerardolopez3294

2 жыл бұрын

Same in Spanish: Margarita

@juliusnepos6013

2 жыл бұрын

@@omargerardolopez3294 yes

@artemisios

2 жыл бұрын

From ancient Greek margarita = pearl.

@felipeberlim3587

2 жыл бұрын

@@artemisios I understand... but how come this word came to be know as the name of a flower (daisy) in Portuguese, Spanish and Catalan? The same happens in French (marguerite). The name for pearl in Portuguese is “pérola”, and in Spanish is “perla”. How did the name Margarida/Margarita/Marguerite came from pearl in greek and ended up naming a flower? And does Margareth come from French, as many words in English do, inherited by the Normans?

@ItAbel-xy3xk

2 жыл бұрын

margarine butter

My sister’s name is Lily Isobel, so I started calling her Lizzie, short for Lisobel. Then of course there’s my friends Matchu (Matthew) and Nomes (Naomi).

I think you forgot a process too. Australiafication. By adding Z to the end of a nickname. So Barry become Baz, and Larry becomes Laz, and Garry become Gaz, and Sharon becomes Shazz.

@kyokazuto

2 жыл бұрын

And Jasmine becomes Jazzy

@workinggarlic

2 жыл бұрын

my names Gary and I have an australian friend who always calls me Gazza

@SwirlOfColors

29 күн бұрын

@@workinggarlic On the other hand I do think English footballer Paul Gascoine had a nickname "Gazza" and this wasn't of Australian origin, but I might be wrong here.

In Spanish we get some interesting nicknames from the time when copying books was very expensive and abbreviations would be used for Joseph and Francis (José and Francisco). You get Pepe (PP) for Joseph, from Pater Putativus (the “assumed father” of Jesus) and Paco (Francisco) which I’ve heard could come from either a phonetic transformation of Fco. or from Pa.Co. as a Latin abbreviation of “father of the community”, as saint Francis was known.

@rahbeeuh

2 жыл бұрын

In DC comics, there's a character named Francisco "Paco" Ramon. His name on the TV show The Flash is Cisco Ramon. Thought I'd share since it came to mind while I read your comment

@Alex-fv2qs

2 жыл бұрын

Also, it's not super rare in Spanish to get a nickname based on a shorter version of your surname

@noelleggett5368

2 жыл бұрын

Pepe doesn’t really come from Pater Putativus. Popular etymologies stemming from acronyms are almost always mistaken. The earlier form of José was Josep (from the Latin Iosephus). And Pepe evolved from the last syllable in the name. Similarly, in Italian, Giuseppe (and its diminutive form, Giuseppino) is shortened to Pino. Luigi and Luigina are shortened to Gino and Gina.

@noelleggett5368

2 жыл бұрын

@@Alex-fv2qs In Australia (as in Britain), it’s very common to have a nickname based on a shortened form of your surname. If your surname is Roberts, Robinson, Robertson (or something similar), you’re likely to be called “Robbo”. “Johnno” is more likely to be a nickname of someone with the surname Johnson, rather than the given name, John. My brother has spent most of his life being called “Legs”.

@ericktellez7632

2 жыл бұрын

@@noelleggett5368 Paul McCartney - Macca

"Jonathan" (no "h") is a completely separate name from "John", and it's short form would be "Jon" (no "h").

@boli2746

2 жыл бұрын

And is where Jack comes from.... For reasons...

@YT-Observer

2 жыл бұрын

@@boli2746 though many Johnathon are called JACK too

@PuzzledMonkey

2 жыл бұрын

And yet John and Jonathan mean essentially the same thing in the original Hebrew forms: gift from God. Same as Theodore in Greek.

@andreasm5770

2 жыл бұрын

@@PuzzledMonkey Jonathan is "gift from God"; John is "graced by God." Similar, but not the same.

@JonBerry555

2 жыл бұрын

thank you for also saying this. It is amazing how so many people make this oversight/mistake. Even some of my former teachers would shorten my name to "John" rather than "Jon" or they would spell my full name with the nonexistent "h." Its really bad when I had written my name on top of the paper they rate their note on.

I read a book once that had chapters titled with different nicknames for Margaret, using all the common and stranger ones including Gretchen, Rita, Daisy and Pearl. It took me a long time to figure out the trick and realize it was all about the same woman.

I’ve always thought that adding harder consonant to nicknames was to make the names easier to be heard when yelling from afar. Men were often outside or working on noisy environments and had to yell to each other or get each other’s attention. Something like the hard D in Dick (no pun intended) makes it much easier to yell and hear than the softer sounds in something like Rich or even Rick. Bob, Bill, Jack all follow this pattern as well. It may also explain why this is more common in male nicknames than female.

@Komenya0905

11 ай бұрын

🤣😂

@prapanthebachelorette6803

6 ай бұрын

Possible

For the record, Jonathan and John are separate names with separate origins and separate meanings. Signed, a Jonathan (NOT Jon, and very definitely NOT John).

@tiffanypatton9293

2 жыл бұрын

My husband always have to say “John, not Jonathan. My name has an H!”

@Morpheux1

2 жыл бұрын

Yup, Yohanan = Graced by God, were John (and my name, Juan) come from Jonathan = God has given, but Jon, nathan, nathaniel are proper nicknames for it tho.

@Ratryoshka

2 жыл бұрын

Now im kinda wondering where did the Malay name Johan falls in the connection

@adrianblake8876

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Morpheux1 They're different names, just as biblical, not nicknames of one another.

@OpTubeShorts

2 жыл бұрын

John

10:54 - One nickname our family had for Margaret was 'Wicked Witch of the West', although since that applied only to one specific lady called Margaret, I don't think that really counts.

@mykemech

5 ай бұрын

That's kinda like how my friends shortened my name to Dick. My long name is Michael...

@M.Corp_Associate

3 ай бұрын

​@@mykemech how do they get Dick from Micheal?

When I changed my name to Theo, my family wanted to come up with new nicknames for me so now I'm: T, Thoo, Theodore, Thimble, Thumb, Thumbelina and probably some others. It's nice because my previous never really had many nickname options :)

My friend's parents are named Elizabeth and Robert. They were so sick of people always calling them various nicknames that they gave their children names that did not have obvious nicknames. My friend's name is Sarah.

@MortanAMrk

11 ай бұрын

Classic Lisbeth and Bobby move

@M.Corp_Associate

3 ай бұрын

That's such a Lizzie and Bo Move.

Its funny how people who give their children names like Hope, Joy or Faith get lots of hate even though most names are like that, just from other languages

@rahbeeuh

2 жыл бұрын

Those folx just cut to the chase

@tompeled6193

2 жыл бұрын

These names are misogynistic. They not just words, but very specific words.

@md_vandenberg

2 жыл бұрын

@@tompeled6193 The fuck are you on about? Those "very specific words" sound nice and represent good things. If naming my daughter Hope makes me a misogynist, then sign me up. In your channel description, you call yourself "Cringe autist". At least you're honest.

@tompeled6193

2 жыл бұрын

@@md_vandenberg These are religious virtue names invented by the Puritans. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_name No wonder they aren't unisex. They used these names to enforce purity on women. Also, shut up with the autistophobia.

@599Productions

2 жыл бұрын

@@tompeled6193 phobia means fear, and I don't think he has demonstrated a fear of autistic people, he just called you one

When reading Russian literature, the nicknames kill me. Took me 500 pages of Brothers Karamazov to realise that "Grushenka" is a nickname for "Agrafena"

@MyBiPolarBearMax

2 жыл бұрын

The patronymics don’t help anything either ugh. My brother married a Russian girl and their son’s middle name is supposed to be his name with “ivich” at the end. He had to go through weeks of paperwork to get it changed to what he actually wanted to to be.

@richardking3206

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve never been able to get on with much Russian literature due to the plethora of alternative names used for each character. By, say, the second chapter, my head is just swimming with names and I’m forgetting which name belongs to who.

@skelet8337

2 жыл бұрын

Don't try to find and sense in Slavic nick names in bulagaria Alexander most common nickname is sasho

@christianzombievampire

2 жыл бұрын

This may be wrong, but I heard that the word for “vodka” evolved as a diminutive of “voda” (water) lol

@hishykot

2 жыл бұрын

@@christianzombievampire idk, we use "vodichka" as a diminutive for water and "vodochka" for vodka

That is a very interesting video! My mother is from the Czech Republic, and when she attended school, everyone formed nicknames based upon surnames instead of given names. For example, my mother’s surname is Schiffauerová, so her friends nicknamed her Schiffinka. Howbeit, your video was marvellous! Continue this impressive work!

i named my kitten Margret after Meg McCaffrey from the trials of apollo books, and so far she’s lived up to her namesake, she can eat surprising amounts of food for such a small kitten, she much prefers to be called meg rather than margret, and she’s got such an attitude, she loves cuddles but won’t let me touch her when anyone else is around and she acts big and tough (which is adorable since she was the runt and her much bigger sister is clearly humoring her)

Mentioning Pat from Patrick reminded me how some fans of the band Fall Out Boy, whose lead singer is named Patrick, call him Trick. It’s not common but I saw it a lot online.

@christianzombievampire

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’ve heard that, I think it’s pretty cute! I think they also call him Lunchbox but I have no idea how that started lmao

My school friend Claire used to lift up her glasses and say, "Tis I, L'Eclair!" like the Allo Allo character.

In my country we have people whose full names are Peggy, Maggie, Jack, Bobby, Billy, Harry, Mike, and so on. We started using the language recently and never bothered with the culture. We also got completely new "English" names by unwittingly changing the spelling to suit how we pronounce names like Penlope and Royd (yes, Royd is a different name from Lloyd in Zambia. Deal with it). Deborah is distinct from Debra, we pronounce the O. One of my best friends is called Suzen.

Another thing that's interesting is when two different names have the same nickname, like "Christina" and "Christopher" both being shortened to "Chris," or "Samuel" and "Samantha" both being shortened to "Sam."

In Serbian (and other Slavic languages) nicknames have a pagan origin. Children were given nicknames to be used in public, and given names were (mostly) kept secret and used only inside the household. It was believed that if an enemy or an evil spirit knew your real given name, it could use it to put a curse upon you, and children were considered the most vulnerable. We also have some weird conventions in Serbian, for example nickname for Svetlana is "Ceca", Slobodan is "Beba", and Filip is "Ćofi". It's all quite fascinating.

@DouglasJenkins

2 жыл бұрын

The Caribbean convention of making a unique name flows from this same thought, which is why these unique spellings and pronunciations are so widespread there.

@vbrown6445

2 жыл бұрын

@@DouglasJenkins Yes. We call them pet names in Jamaica. Everyone knows you by your pet name, which most likely has no relation to your legal name that's on your government documents. It's just a whole other name. Sometimes, you go your whole life not knowing the real name of a friend or relative. LOL!

@quincy9908

2 жыл бұрын

@@vbrown6445 I feel this (not carribean, but I am a Black American so I have family their) and we be making whole names up from celebrity stage names or simple characteristics we have. Also speculation of giving people your government name. Even the government XD.

@toomanyopinions8353

6 ай бұрын

I do believe this origin also applies to English.

In Wales we shorten Owen to just Owz usually

As a German, I had to learn the concept of "natural nicknames". A nickname is often just a short version of a given name, however it was foreign to me to see people assume "you're called Bob? Your name must be Robert then!" because I'd just assume the name is Bob.

I knew of a close family who called their daughter, Margaret, Maggie. But they also gave her a cute familiar nick-name, Mag-pie, after the bird. I'd like to mention, here, that another way nick-names are given, is through the whim by a circle of friends. I was given the name "BatChic" at a dance club, because I was caught dancing to a live band, while wearing an item of unique clothing I created with a Batman fabric comic book panel appliquéd in front. They said, "Who is that chic dancing?" "Who is that BatChic?"

8:21. I learn something new every day. I am Persian and so when he said Margareth came from the Persian word for pearl I was confused since the current word for pearl in Farsi is "mrvaryd" pronounced mor-waa-reed. well anyways it turns out he is right and the *old* Persian word is margarite.

@AtarahDerek

2 жыл бұрын

I could immediately spy similarities between the two.

In Terry Pratchet's Diskworld series there's a character named "Magrat" whose name was supposed to be Margaret but her parents misspelled it.

@margaretnorthover2715

2 жыл бұрын

That's one of my nick-names

@nealjroberts4050

2 жыл бұрын

She ended with a daughter called Esmeralda (Esme) Note-Spelling.

I have a sister named Claire whose nickname is “Cluh” because my other sister had trouble pronouncing her R’s when she was little.

I live in Australia and nicknames are quite odd here, red haired guys are called "bluey"

Here are all the variations of Margaret I can think of: Marguerite, Margarita, Mairead, Margareta (all different language versions, French, Spanish, Irish and German respectively) Maggie, Mags (this seems to be a very Irish thing, I've never heard of a Mags that isn't Irish), Marge/Marj (though it's usually short for Marjorie, especially if it's spelled with a J at the end), Margo/Margot/Margaux, Margie, Meg (as far as I know, Megan is of Welsh origin), Peg, Peggy, Daisy Mary also has a lot of variations (e.g. Maria, Marie, Marian/Marion/Mariana, Marissa, Muriel, Molly, and even male forms in other languages like Mario/Marius/Mariusz (the last one is the Polish for Marius/Mario)) Some names like Ann(e) can ride on the back of another name to form a new name, e.g. Julianne and Leanne Some names like Melissa are good at making what I call "mixer names", where two names are joined together to make a new name, and Melissa is the only name I know ending in "-issa" that isn't derived from another existing name, so maybe all other "-issa" names are derived from it? Like, Alyssa comes from Alice, Clarissa from Claire/Clara, Julissa from Julie/Julia, Larissa from Lara/Laura, Marissa from Mary, but Melissa comes directly from Greek meaning "bee"

@kylewilley9535

2 жыл бұрын

Never did understand how you get Peggy from Margaret.

@aaronodonoghue1791

2 жыл бұрын

@@kylewilley9535 Margaret -> Maggie -> Meggy -> Peggy Or Margaret -> Maggie -> Mag -> Meg -> Peg -> Peggy It's a few different methods combined into one, like those used to get "Robert -> Robbie/Rob", "James -> Jim" and "William -> Bill" Which makes me wonder, what intermediate stage comes between James and Jim? As Jimmy is obviously a derivative of Jim Inb4 the Jimothy jokes

@NovaSaber

2 жыл бұрын

Larissa has been a name since ancient Greece, though.

@tracik1277

2 жыл бұрын

My Auntie Margaret was known as Minna.

@tompeled6193

2 жыл бұрын

I think it was a translation of the hebrew "Deborah" meaning bee.

My sister is called Ruby, my dad calls her ‘Roobs’. Not sure if this is the case for other Rubys or if this is just because we are Australian and we like to shorten everything

@RubyCooper7

2 жыл бұрын

My dad has also called me Roobs or Roobers for pretty much my whole life :) At work it's Roobs or Ru, but I'm still the only Ruby in the building

@mattbarneveld815

2 жыл бұрын

I have a friend whose daughter is commonly called Roobs for Ruby. Also Australian 😊

@MoonLiteNite

2 жыл бұрын

yeah i knew a girl when i was a kid her name was ruby, we called her "roo" and of course her mom called her "roo-boo"

My name is Michael, but my nickname is Squid. Was given to me by my step-brother and his friends. When I met his friends, they just went "Squid" and it stuck. Love the name. My step-brother is nicknamed "Boy". When he was a kid, he yelled to his mom "Make me a sandwhich, woman." His mom replied with "Make it yourself, boy", and that became his nickname.

This seems like an appropriate video to ask this, though I'm fairly confident no-one will see it this late in the game. Why are people so damn insistent that 'Vlad' is *not* a nickname for 'Vladimir'? It's right there, in the name, and it sounds nice, too. I know when (positive thinking) my novel is published, I'm gonna get shit for nicknaming my Vladimir as Vlad, and I wanna understand *why*.

@rvn1837

2 жыл бұрын

People say that Vlad isn't Vladimir's nickname because Vlad actually isn't Vladimir's nickname. That was simple.

@travellingcircus7658

2 жыл бұрын

it’s cuz vlad just isn’t a nickname, it’s a different name, n even if it was, it’s too similiar to vlado for vladislav. use vova or smth instead

@stonehaven2289

2 жыл бұрын

@@3173_Delta so what about John being called Jack.. Jack is a name on it's own?!?

@stonehaven2289

2 жыл бұрын

@@3173_Delta he can call his character whatever he wants to.. Vlad for Vladimir makes more sense to anyone calling someone by a shortened version of their name..

@stonehaven2289

2 жыл бұрын

@@travellingcircus7658 well Chris is a different name from Christopher too.. but people named Christian, Christopher, Christine, Crystal, Krystal, Kristen, Kristy, Christoph and many others are also called Chris, Cris or Kris.. who really cares my Birth name is Christopher but if someone called me Christopher I'd never even think they were talking to me.. I've never answered to Christopher.. my son's name is Christopher and he's never been called Chris by anyone in the family or really close friends.. he's always been called Bubby by all of us.. if I was upset with him as a child I called him Christopher but that was very rare.. now it is weird because when his girlfriend calls him Chris I always think she's talking to me lol

Getting from "Peter" to "Spice nut" is a convoluted journey that only makes sense in dutch... These days online I go by the russian variant of the name, Pjotr, and one of my best friends has taken to calling me that way sometimes irl.

@DaniAalders

2 жыл бұрын

Peternoot lmao

@flamingpi2245

2 жыл бұрын

Whatever you say nutmeg

in malaysia, it is common to add "ah" to the front of a name to turn it into a nickname. My mother's name is judy, so she is called ah joo by her friends, and her sister ruby is called ah bee. polish inlaws also do a funny thing of adding a "k" to a name to nick it. e.g. alicja -> aliki, aurelia -> relki

@Robin-jk6wz

2 жыл бұрын

In America we have a tendency to lengthen the nickname. So, for example, "Martin" becomes "Fart in a Jar Martin".

@512TheWolf512

2 жыл бұрын

@@Robin-jk6wz and you wonder why americans are stereotyped as being rude

@MoonLiteNite

2 жыл бұрын

i picked that up real quick when i was out in singpaore in oct... part of their singlish (sp) carried over so much stuff from chinese and use them as adverbs too lol

@wonktea

2 жыл бұрын

my parents never explained much chinese to me so this makes a lot of sense on my grandma's name lol

@carbonmonoxide5052

2 жыл бұрын

So Malaysians can basically get Abby out of Ruby? Interesting.

I did not think I would enjoy this as much as I did. It was also very educational. New subby here. I suppose that's the diminutive of subscriber right? 😁

I've had a few nicknames given to me by friends(my name is Connor) such as conrade, condor, con-con, and one unrelated to my name, Pikachu. Also one of my friends named Ezzera goes by the letter Z as a nickname.

the meaning of "eke name" reminds me of the turkish word "ek"('e' as in 'end' though). as a noun, it means "extension", "extra", "suffix". as a verb, it means "to plant"(mostly used for plants that aren't trees). as an adjective, it means "additional". EDIT: fixed some issues regarding technical terms.

@imagiguard

2 жыл бұрын

Coming from the "additional" meaning, it also means "suffix". Also, "additional" is an adjective. I can't remember the English translation, but those extra things that come with magazines are also called "ek".

@proCaylak

2 жыл бұрын

@@imagiguard thanks for clarifying some technical terms. those extras that come with magazines are usually "extras". but if they are inside the magazine/newspaper, they are called as "inserts".

@waterdrager93

2 жыл бұрын

It's cognate to Dutch 'ook' and German 'auch' which mean 'also' or 'too'. In that way it does literally mean extra name.

In Australia, we'd call Ruby- Rubes

@carbonmonoxide5052

2 жыл бұрын

I was gonna comment that that would be a possible nickname. I guess it’s done in America too.

@charlenefaye

2 жыл бұрын

Same in the UK. But allot of names get changed to have -es. I belive this trend started around 70s and 80s to make it more personal. My dad does it to my name when he gets sentimental with me. (Edit: to my nickname not my actual name, He doesn't say Charles XD)

@ahrzhule

2 жыл бұрын

I like it! :-)

@rhythmandblues_alibi

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlenefaye I had a friend Charlotte who I nicknamed Charls. 😁

@Zachyshows

2 жыл бұрын

I call Ruby one of the funniest bfb characters

I had a cat named Ruby for 17 years. I often times referred to her as Rubes because it's easier to say quickly but other times when she was affectionate, I'd call her Roo or Rooroo but Rubes was definitely the most common thing I referred to Ruby as. Oh! Sometimes I jokingly called her Ruby Tuesday because I was listening to music & the song Goodbye Ruby Tuesday came on & it got her attention, it was cute seeing her look around to try & figure out who was saying her name.

3:20 Hunter is another one that comes to mind. It’s also fun when 3 of them are in the same class and all 3 of them are the only Hunters in the school. The teacher quite simply would say Hunter then all 3 would look at him then he would have to emphasize a last name.

In Polish names Aleksander and Aleksandra have nicknames "Olek" and "Ola", I don't know why, but probalby at some point in time these names use to be "Oleksander", I know that Ukrainian counterpart of that name is "Ołeksandr". Anyway I'm little bit annoyed that some name have few unique nicknames, and other don't have any, or share nicknames with other names, for example both Bartosz and Bartłomiej are shortened to "Bartek", while Antoni can be "Antek" or "Tosiek", Joanna can be "Asia" or "Joasia" and Małgorzata can be "Gosia" or "Małgosia". In English names like William, Willard, Willis or Wilbert can all be shortened to Will, that has always fascinated me, how to distinguish these names? William can be Bill, but can Willard be Lard or something? Wilbert probalby can be Bert, but Robert, Albert, Norbert, Herbert, Hubert and others can be too. That's why I choose nickname Will on the internet, and I assume it's short for Willis. My real name is Albert, and I never liked it, in primary school I was sometimes called Bert or Bercik, my family called me Aluś or Alek when I was younger, which then became confusing, because my younger cousin Aleksander is also called Alek (ironically he think that "Olek" is stupid name :P ). Unfortunatelly no one calls me Al, which would sound cool, only one guy called me that once. I wanted to be called Al in my second school, after primary school, but I had classmate called Ala (short for Alicja) so I thought it would be confusing.

@mmcharchuta

2 жыл бұрын

What's even more fascinating, in Russia diminutives for Aleksander/dra are Sasha. How did they end up with that, eh?

@JuanVilorio

2 жыл бұрын

My name is Albert too some people call me Al, most just call me Juan or by last name

So glad you used Margaret as the example of wierd ones. My grandmother was named Peggy, and her sister is named Margaret. Their mother had no idea Peggy was a nickname for Margaret. xD ..and I always wondered how Peggy became a nickname for it.

I've always wondered why "John" is known often as "Jack"...?

@winc06

2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@jtarmstrong1234

2 жыл бұрын

And "Polly" from "Mary"

@vbrown6445

2 жыл бұрын

@@jtarmstrong1234 Molly is a nickname for Mary. Polly comes from Molly.

@jojo.s_bekaar_adventures

2 жыл бұрын

I thought Jack is nickname for Jacob

@vbrown6445

2 жыл бұрын

@@jojo.s_bekaar_adventures I think Jake more often than Jack.

I really liked this video! I just had a bit problem with the sound, even with all speakers at 100%. I know with my name there are a few nicknames. In Spain, Tatiana becomes Tati, but not in French, because "tatie" means "aunt", so they call me Tatou (yeah, like the animal XD) or Tat. There are also Tia, Tiana, Tana, Tania.

Never knew that my nickname of “Geffy” was hypocoristic! I got the nickname from a little kid at a summer camp I worked at, he couldn’t say the “r” in Geoffry. I liked the sound, and it stuck!

I'm German and I went to school with a guy called "Joseph" (written like the English name, but pronounced differently), and he didn't like his name and had everyone call him "Juppi" instead. "Jupp" and "Juppi" are common nicknames for "Joseph/Josef" in my area of Germany (Rheinland-Pfalz/Saarland), but in Bavaria for example, the more common nickname for "Joseph/Josef" is not "Jupp/Juppi", but "Sepp/Seppel". But "Sepp" is not only a nickname for "Joseph", but also for "Sebastian", which is alternatively also shortened to "Bastian" or "Basti". I find it fascinating how you can get very different nicknames from the same name, just by focusing on a different syllable.

@rahbeeuh

2 жыл бұрын

A newer nickname I've seen for Sebastian is Bash

@yorgunsamuray

2 жыл бұрын

So, the names of the German football coaches Jupp Derwall and Sepp Piontek are both Joseph? (the latter can be Sebastian too though)

@ichbinben.

2 жыл бұрын

@@yorgunsamuray Yes, they both have the name Josef.

@yorgunsamuray

2 жыл бұрын

@@ichbinben. thanks. As for the Sepp for Sebastian, I remember the kid from Erich Kästner's "Flying Classroom" (read there somewhere, I might be wrong). That book had some good nicknames. The Nonsmoker for instance :) I liked that book as a kid back in the days :)

I had a relative whose given name was Zane. He was frequently called “Zaney”. Fitting, given he was pretty crazy.

Another fascinating video, thanks! In the U.S., Hank is often the nickname for Henry and in German, the nickname for Friedrich is Fritz, for some reason. I guess they just went thru the same process as Peg, Bob, and Dick, etc.

Something I didn't realize until fairly recently is that some nicknames are pretty regional. For instance, in New England (and probably somewhere else too) Jack is usually not a name, but a nickname for John. In many places however Jack is just a name.

Some people even have 2 nicknames, for example, my sister has a nickname that we use in the family and another that her friends use, and it never gets confusing, really

Tunisian-born guy here. My name is Nazir, but since I live in the west now, I use Ben by shifting my surname (Be) to the front, making it Benazir before contracting it to make ben. But growing up, since I grew up in a place where the connotations of the word weren't a thing, I was called Nazi (Nah-zee not Nah-tsee) by friends and family as a kid. My uncles and aunts over in Tunisia still call me that when i call them haha.

A bit of a stretch idea, but make a video on sign language names :D For ASL and FSL we do it like this; a person's name is spelled out, but that is almost NEVER done unless you have a 3 or 4 letter name, or one that easily flows. Normally people will get slang or short versions of their name spelling, like for me christopher > CURIs (S is super sloppy and dropped or carried over to next word). The H changes to a U to avoid having to change the up/down to left / right position of the hand. But holds the same shape of 2 fingers. Then another and more common method is to just make up a fake "word" in sign language. Or merging 2 words together that kinda relates back to the person. An example a girl is goth, dresses like a vampire. Her name is Amanda. So her nicname would be like the sign for vampire, 2 fingers tapping on your neck while exposing your teeth, but would tap the letter "A" on the neck, while exposing teeth. Or someone with the name of Nathan, they are very caring and passionate person. So their nick name was the hand held like an "N" and then the motion was like that for the word "passion"

My 10 yo grandson is Owen, and his sister and parents call him Owie. He loves it.

"Margarita" also means "daisy" in Spanish, and hence the name for the drink because it was colorful like the flower.. Meanwhile, I get Jon, Jonathan, Jonny, Nathan, Nate, Nat... and that's about it. And it wasn't until you mentioned it that I realized that, while "William" can become "Liam," I have never met anyone named Patrick who went by "Rick." As they shouldn't.

@janetn246

2 жыл бұрын

In Galveston, Texas they will tell you the Margarita was invented by the bartender at the legendary Balinese room and named in honor of the singer, Peggy Lee. There are other origin stories elsewhere.

This was both entertaining and interesting, it reminded me of that time of my life when i was working on a big hotel once as a server for events, special occasions, ceremonies and also in the hotel restaurant, It's was one of my most unforgettable moments in my life hilariously because when i started working on that hotel; eventually, i slowly started to realize that every department of that particular hotel from the lowest to the top executives has employees with the same exact spelling of my Rey also on their names and what makes it so hilarious is that we all have the same exact spelling of Rey on our name plates that are pinned on our uniforms while on duty, Yeah believe or not; all of the departments on that hotel establishment has Rey's on each and every one of them, isn't it both odd and funny at the same time that there's is business establishment that has employees with the same exact name on their I.D or name tags on every department it has that actually exist?, I only found that out after my tenure promotion when the HR personnel who issued the certificate to me was shocked that i actually was a Rey like everyone else and sarcastically said "to be honest, i thought you're department will be the only one that will never have a Rey but here you are!, Proving the old joke here wrong; THE REY'S ARE INVADING THIS HOTEL!, NO DEPARTMENT IS SAFE!." So yeah that job was fun that even sometimes my shift would like almost 20 hours a day and only have like 6 hours interval for the next shift, it was completely worth it because it was fun including those hilarious moments that involves our names being called and a lot of weird, stupid and annoying things happen. Really fun though 😁😁😁😁

I always thought of nickname like nicking something, making a cut in it, shortening it

I had a friend Ruby who was called Rubes by her family but when by Red at school and with peers. Which adds the more complex symbolic nicknames as a layer if depth. Another friend became "Summer" to us because my name Julian and her name Julie Ann were so close and we both responded to Jules and Julie because of diminutives and family. Summer came about because of the root of our names being July, and Summer traditionally being more feminine. In all honesty thats probably what made me get into the meaning of names, and thus this channel.

My late cat's name was Maggie. I sometimes called her Maggie-cat as a nickname. Which is weird because it was just making her name longer rather than shorter.

@ladysparkymartin

2 жыл бұрын

My late cat’s name was Maggie The Cat. (After Liz Taylor’s character in the Tennessee Williams play/film A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof). I also called her Maggie-cat sometimes among many other things 😹😻

@MsGbergh

2 жыл бұрын

That also happens with people's names. John becomes Johnny , or Ann becomes Annie or Nancy.

@starsoullove1026

2 жыл бұрын

My dog's name is Molly but we always call her Molly-Dolly

I had a Ruby on my netball team in primary school and sometimes Ruby was too long to say quickly so we called her Ru (pronounced the same way as the nickname for a kangaroo (roo)). Our team had a bunch of weird nicknames

Sometimes different abbreviations are used in GB and the US example Albert contracts to Al in the US or to Bert in GB. You mentioned Xander as a contraction for Alexander, but in GB Alexander usually contacts to Alex, which can also be a contraction of the female name Alexandra. My own name, Michael, will contract to Mike or Mick. I prefer to be called Michael, but others with the same name prefer one of the contractions. I have a cousin William, he likes to be called Bill, but objects to Billy. His mother is Elizabeth [known as Bet or Betty], his father is Alfred [called Alf]. his brother is John [always called John, never Johnny or other variation].

My mums name is Margaret, and those she worked with would often call her Pearl, so I knew the link between Margaret and Pearl as a child, but it always confused my friends!

@EricaGamet

2 жыл бұрын

My great Aunt was named Peg and I was shocked as a child to hear someone call her Margaret! I was soooo confused! I never understood how they got "Peg" until now, though! I have another aunt named Margaret but she just goes by Margaret.

Surely "Roo" is a pretty common shortening of Ruby, no?

@adamwojtasiak6204

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve also heard rube or rubes

@Robin-jk6wz

2 жыл бұрын

Or Emerald

@trippydrew8492

2 жыл бұрын

@@Robin-jk6wz That was always the best version to be fair!

One of my favourite nicknames is Posy/Posie, short for Josephine. I assume, the name Josie had the J replaced with the P seen in Josephine, and that's how we got it? The connotation of the flower probably encouraged it too.

I'm not sure about other countries, but especially in Australia, names like Claire, Ruby and Owen could have nicknames like; Clarice, Claireo, Clazza. Rubes, Rube. Owwie, Ozza. the commanality being the O sound or Z.