question about names...

[Sava]

How come guys named John are called Jack? And sometimes guys called Ed are called Ted? WTF is up with this?

Can someone please explain this to me because I'm a moron...

[Spec]

Why are people called William called Billy? And robert called Bob?

Makes no sense...or does it?


Spec.

[Snotty]

Edward=Ed=Ted

Dont know about john/jack though.

[aaglo]

Why Richard is called ****?

[Stuie]

Originally posted by aaglo
Why Richard is called ****?

Cause he's a ****.

I always wondered about the John/Jack thing. Makes no sense.

[Sarxis]

Henry becomes Hank.

[CorpusScorpius]

Here are some better ones..........Spanish names Eduardo=Lalo........Jesus=Chuey

[Sava]

Spec: ... William and Bill, Robert and Bob... are obvious shortenings...

How is Jack short for John? Ed and Ted... I don't quite get it, but can at least see that you are only adding a T...

Henry and Hank kind of bothers me, but not as much as John/Jack.

Corpus: Jesus=Chuey? OMFG I KNEW CHEWBACCA WAS THE MESSIAH!

[CorpusScorpius]

Althought this is a little different.........a good friend of mine is Pakistani her name is Bano........bano in Spanish means Bathroom

[The Andy-Man]

Henry - Harry

[JohnT]

For some reason, I'm having a hazy re-collection that "Jack" is an Irish derivative of John. Blame them.

[aaglo]

William should be Will (not Bill)
Robert should be Rob (not Bob)

Are these just examples of murrican dyslexia?

[JohnT]

Originally posted by aaglo
William should be Will (not Bill)
Robert should be Rob (not Bob)

Are these just examples of murrican dyslexia?

No, but thanks for the fine display of ignorant bigotry.

Had you bothered to even look this up, the SECOND link to Google ("names") would've informed you that

BILL m English
Pronounced: BIL
Short form of WILLIAM. The change in the initial consonant may have been influenced by an earlier Irish pronunciation of the name.

and

BOB m English
Pronounced: BAWB
Medieval short form of ROBERT. Other rhyming nicknames of Robert used in the Middle Ages were Dob, Hob and Nob.

Fvcktard.

Oh, and Sava?

JACK m English
Pronounced: JAK
Medieval pet form of JOHN. American writers Jack London and Jack Kerouac were two famous bearers of this name.

[Snotty]

Murrican as in American? Is there some hidden insult here I dont understand?

Its generally considered here that Americans were quite happy to change a number of letters in their words (armour/armor etc). I'm sure Aaglo would not be alone in thinking thats how Will turned into Bill. Although I should have known the Irish had there hands on that one as well

[JohnT]

Murrican as in American? Is there some hidden insult here I dont understand?

The insult was in the use of "dyslexia". Or did you just gloss over that?