Baby Names

Names are funny like that

Just for fun...

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.

Any others?

Re: Names are funny like that

  •  Uh maybe cause Jimothy, Garilyn and Natherine aren't real names?....
  • Loading the player...
  • I don't get it...sorry.
    S- March 09 E- Feb 12 L- May 15


  • imageonislandtime:
     Uh maybe cause Jimothy, Garilyn and Natherine aren't real names?....

    This!  Whew, you must be bored.

    dd(Brianna) 11/01/94, ds(Bram)10/17/95, ds(Jesse)9/26/97, dd (Annie Ruth) 7/27/05 5mc Jan '08, May '08, Feb '09, Sept '09, Apr '11 "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

    PAL/PGAL Welcome

  • 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. 
  • Or *** for Richard
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
  • or jack for benjamin?
  • imagenikintheheart:
    or jack for benjamin?

     

    huh. I've only ever heard Jack for John, not Benjamin. 

    Warning No formatter is installed for the format bbhtml
This discussion has been closed.
Choose Another Board
Search Boards
"
"