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From: rob@ptsfa.UUCP (Rob Bernardo)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: where did the 'B' come from?
Message-ID: <662@ptsfa.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 22-May-85 23:30:31 EDT
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In article <263@ihlpm.UUCP> peg@ihlpm.UUCP (Peg Streff) writes:
>> 	Now, what I want to know, is how they got "Peggy" out of Margaret.
>> -- 
>> 
>> jcpatilla
>> 
>Margaret --> Margie --> Maggie --> Meggie --> Peggy
>
>i have been asked that question many times, and this is the best
>way i've found to explain it, but i still can't explain the switch
>from M to P!!

Many nicknames in English are based on rhymes with other names, e.g.
	Bob from Rob
	Dick from Rick
	Ned, Ted from Ed
	Bill from Will

This is not the case of some regular phonological sound change as
occurs in the words of a language through time, but rather of
a way speakers of English consciously created new nicknames.
-- 


Rob Bernardo, San Francisco, California
{nsc,ucbvax,decwrl,amd,fortune,zehntel}!dual!ptsfa!rob

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