Re: OFF: Name for a cat
| From: | Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, October 1, 1999, 22:58 |
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"Thomas R. Wier" wrote:
> My mother calls our female cat Phoebe "Phoeb'" sometimes. I wonder
> if there is any rule for _deletion_ of /i/s to derive intimate forms --
> rather than the reverse...
Or maybe it's just monosyllabization (is that a word?), such as the way
I call my cats "Mil", "Ol", "Gin", and "Freck" or some people use
monosylabic nicknames, like Nik for Nicholas, or "Tom" for "Thomas".
:-)
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