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why tf you lying rule (lemmy.cafe)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Wait until they find out that Billy is short for William

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Billium

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Also, Peggy is short for Margaret 🤯

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

this one makes me violent

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

The best married couple, Henry and Margaret Hill.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Ya that one has always bothered me. It makes zero sense. That's like having Mark be short for Brennan.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Some nicknames do a consonant shift for the first letter, like William > Will > Willy > Billy

Margaret > Meg > Meggy > Peggy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait, really?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Yes, really.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Chuck is short for Charles

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I have actually met someone named Billiam

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

The lost element

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sasha is short for Alexander (in Russian)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

And Slava is short for every other name

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Or Hank being short for Henry.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

pass me a henrykerchief would you my lad

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Also Buffy is short for Elizabeth

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Elizabeth II, vampire slayer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I can sorta see that. Beth, Bethy, Buffy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I mean, what isn't short for Elizabeth?