KitchenWitch
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Wed Oct-26-05 01:32 AM
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How does one make the jump from Margaret to Peggy?
Or Alexander to Sascha?
Or John to Jack?
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| hfojvt
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Wed Oct-26-05 01:38 AM
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| 1. and why Richard to Dick? |
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Sarah to Polly
Abigail to Nabby
William to Bill?
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| CaliforniaPeggy
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Wed Oct-26-05 01:44 AM
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| 2. You are not the first, my dear KW, to have asked me that! |
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But I believe that Margaret morphed into Peggy by means of a sound shift......
This is a well-known phenomenon (to linguists, I believe) where the letter in one language is changed to a different letter in the offspring language.
Think Latin going to English....
I don't know if the M sound yielded to a P sound in Latin...but it wouldn't surprise me......
Anyway, this is what I think.....and I could be wrong!
:hi:
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Wed Oct-26-05 01:56 AM
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| 4. It is something I always wondered |
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I guess the jump from Margaret to Maggie, then from Maggie to Peggy is not that far.
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Wed Oct-26-05 01:55 AM
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Nemmind. That one's not hard to figure. But it's still a bit of a stretch.
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Wed Oct-26-05 01:57 AM
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Wed Oct-26-05 02:24 AM
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| 6. I've never heard that! |
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Meg short for Margaret, I've heard that.
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