Why is Tim short for Timothy but Jim is not short for Jimothy? Mary can be Marilyn but you don't see any Garilyn's. Kate is sometimes short for Katherine but Nate is not Natherine.
Uh maybe cause Jimothy, Garilyn and Natherine aren't real names?....
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"And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of vast eternity can fill it up." - Charles Dickens
I've thought about this before, but sort of the opposite. Why is James shortened to Jim? Shouldn't it be Jam? And how did they get Bill from William? Etc.
Re: Names are funny like that
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huh. I've only ever heard Jack for John, not Benjamin.