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Charles = Chuck, or Chas 
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It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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That's Jacques.Originally posted by Ethelred
The French version of John is Jaque. Yielding Jack in English after the Normans finally learned the language three generations after the conquest.
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Hey it was the Normans that learned to spell. I am Irish-German-American and I had the good sense to take Spanish and not French.Comment
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I am a Quebecois and didn't have a choice...What?Comment
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Actually, Jack and Jacques are unrelated names that coincidentally sound the same. Jacques is, IIRC, the French version of James; the French version of John is Jean.
Jack came from Jonkin, a Germanic diminuative of the name John. Again, IIRC.
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I think it was developed to save disc space on computers in the 70's.
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Anthony is called Tony
Elizabeth is called Liz or LisaI came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Doesn't Tony come from Antonio?It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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Same name, different origins. I know more Anthonys than Antonios still.
Oddly, I haven't heard any Antonios referred to as Tony.
I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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then there's Margerie -> Midge
two of the most horrifically bad names aroundStop Quoting BenComment
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That's 'cause you don't live in Spain.Originally posted by DanS
Same name, different origins. I know more Anthonys than Antonios still.
Oddly, I haven't heard any Antonios referred to as Tony.
But we would rather spell it Toni than Tony, I think.
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I have a cousin called Margerie, and we've never called her Midge……… We'll call her Margie though."mono has crazy flow and can rhyme words that shouldn't, like Eminem"
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The french version of "John" is "Jean". This is related to, like, Sean and Shane and stuff, but not to Jack.
Do any nicknames actually lengthen the name? In sweden, "Bo" often becomes "Bosse"...Världsstad - Dom lokala genrenas vän
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Robert = Bobert = Bob.
...yes, I know one person that goes by 'Bobert'...
My logic-defying favorite?
Margaret = Peggy
No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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