That_One_Lunatic
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I've finally learned why "Dick" is short for "Richard". Back in medieval times, Richard was an extremely common name, and so, they would shorten it to "Rick" or "Rich". There was a trend of letter-swapping, and seeing as rhyming was quite popular, "Dick" stuck.
"Jack" is short for John due to linguistic differences. Apparently, "kin" was added to something to make it diminutive. "Jen" was the way they said John, so John was then "Jenkin" which in time turned to "Jakin" which in time turned to "Jack". But unlike "Dick" Jack is able to stand as a name on its own.
"Bill" is short for William much like how "Dick" is short for Richard. Besides, the harder consonants are easier than the soft ones, so it's also just a case of making pronunciation easier.
"Peggy" is short for Margret for the same reasons. "Meg", "Meggie", "Maggie" and even "Mog" were quite common and it wasn't long before they changed to "Peggy".
So yeah... That's twenty minutes of my life I'm never getting back
KAJ2004
@That_One_Lunatic thanks for the info, now i can shove it in my morhers face that i know more than her bejind that name, i love showing her up in knowledge
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Kat_Rosexoxo
I thought it was because he acted like a dick sometimes, my Aunty and uncle are friends with a Richard with the same nickname because he acts like a dick so for Dick Grayson I used the same logic
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That_One_Lunatic
I've finally learned why "Dick" is short for "Richard". Back in medieval times, Richard was an extremely common name, and so, they would shorten it to "Rick" or "Rich". There was a trend of letter-swapping, and seeing as rhyming was quite popular, "Dick" stuck.
"Jack" is short for John due to linguistic differences. Apparently, "kin" was added to something to make it diminutive. "Jen" was the way they said John, so John was then "Jenkin" which in time turned to "Jakin" which in time turned to "Jack". But unlike "Dick" Jack is able to stand as a name on its own.
"Bill" is short for William much like how "Dick" is short for Richard. Besides, the harder consonants are easier than the soft ones, so it's also just a case of making pronunciation easier.
"Peggy" is short for Margret for the same reasons. "Meg", "Meggie", "Maggie" and even "Mog" were quite common and it wasn't long before they changed to "Peggy".
So yeah... That's twenty minutes of my life I'm never getting back
KAJ2004
@That_One_Lunatic thanks for the info, now i can shove it in my morhers face that i know more than her bejind that name, i love showing her up in knowledge
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Kat_Rosexoxo
I thought it was because he acted like a dick sometimes, my Aunty and uncle are friends with a Richard with the same nickname because he acts like a dick so for Dick Grayson I used the same logic
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That_One_Lunatic
I just heard my teacher say "And a dictatorship is like all of that but on crack" and nothing else. I'm both confused and highly amused
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The dude who sits in front of me in Spanish is watching Titans and i kinda want to ask him to put on subtitles so I can watch to
c_y_grayson
@That_One_Lunatic the girl in front of me in my English class is always watching Queer Eye with the subtitles on so now me and everyone else behind her watches it too
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beauty-andthe-geek
I just had to comment and say the poems or writings you wrote were so deep and so amazing. It fells like you have a way with words. You are amazing and I wish you the best.
That_One_Lunatic
Chaos is what killed the dinosaurs, darling ;)
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Sorry peeps but I'm going to have to cancel the live stream. I've just started sleeping pills and I cannot speak for the life of me. I can write somewhat easy enough but when it comes to speaking it juts doesn't work. What I do say makes little to no sense, my words are slurred and i laugh at literally everything. It just would not go well.
Sorry again, hopefully I'll be able to reschedule.
That_One_Lunatic
"Don't bring an investigator, bring an ambulance"
God I love Buzzfeed Unsolved XD
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I have a question for you guys: How much is five pounds? Now I'm pretty sure all of you are going to say "five pounds is five pounds".
But how much does it weigh? "Five pounds weighs five pounds".
But does it?
If you don't know how much something weighs and you don't have access to a scale how do you know how heavy it is?
If I hand you five pounds of books, and you don't know how much it weighs, does it weigh five pounds? Technically yes, it is. But you don't know that. So is it five pounds to you? Sure it weighs something but it doesn't weight five pounds- not to you at least. Because you don't know the value does it technically weigh nothing? No, it weighs something you just don't know the number.
And that is why weighing things by numbers is stupid- if you don't know the number it doesn't have a value and henceforth it doesn't have a weight.
Potato-666
@That_One_Lunatic but since we all have different strengths and feel 5 pounds as something different. It would be hard to use it for documents. So in a construction doc in your world, it would say the thing weighs really heavy well that's relative to the person so rather than have different measurements for different people we use numbers since we know what we can deal with and can't.
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