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To: nopardons
It's more common, re siblings, for a baby/toddler sibling, who can't pronounce a name correctly, to give another child a mispronounced name that the family then picks up and carries on.

Yes. I had a relative named Herbert. His little brother couldn't pronounce "brother" yet. It came out as "bwuzzo." That changed to "buzzo." Everyone in the family, even his parents, started to call him "Buzz" and that lasted the rest of his life. In school and where he worked and even at his funeral. No one ever called him Herbert.

116 posted on 10/17/2018 3:42:04 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWITR,FACBK,NYT,WaPo,Hlywd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antifa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA)
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To: Right Wing Assault

Great story and that really IS how a lot of family nick names originated.


138 posted on 10/17/2018 11:05:40 AM PDT by nopardons
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