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Stick welding 02-21-2013 22:02:07 96.53.210.246 Report to Moderator	Another post got me thinking about a question I had years ago. Fridge is short for refrigerator but how come there's no d in the long version? Did somebody accidentally forget the d way back when and it stuck or what? Makes you go hmmm. [Reply]   [No Email]
JDNewbie 02-24-2013 14:49:19 68.102.184.71 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   I'll add a couple. I'm "Henry" but the family calls me "Hank". Don't know how that one works. Pierre, SD - Dad could always get mom fired up by pronouncing it "pea-air" instead of "peer". Come to think of it, I got in trouble in 4th grade for correcting my teacher's pronunciation on that one. Gruene and Boerne, TX - Prounounced "green" and "bernie". It took me awhile to find those on the map.   [Reply]  [No Email]
oleclint 02-22-2013 17:38:30 69.8.14.205 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   How did Melvin get turned into Butch ? Have a friend that had that happen long ago.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Rich'sToys 02-22-2013 13:37:09 74.44.57.128 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   Lawrence is also sometimes called Larry! :roll:   [Reply]  [No Email]
muleboss 02-22-2013 11:31:55 67.239.114.92 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   Lawrence is called Bud Me and my 3 brothers James----Jim William----Bill Robert-----Bob Thomas--Tom   [Reply]  [No Email]
Old Roy 02-22-2013 11:21:42 98.236.252.189 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   I have a friend .. His last name is "Skiwruit",, (Polish descendent) as close as I can get to pronouncing it semi correctly is "Scrott" Really gets mixed up when programed into an automatic (speak to call) dialing cell phone, when it asks you back if you want this name . His first name is Theordore, but I don't know how that was changed to a simple Ted. No where close to being as cute as a teddy bear ...LOL. Of course, I have to give him all the credit for being smarter than I because he can still speak polish.   [Reply]  [No Email]
greygoat 02-22-2013 08:57:37 75.121.147.108 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   Per "CRESCENT", as in Crescent wrench? I've seen 50's one with Crescent, on one side and "Diamond Calk Horseshoe CO.-Duluth" on the other. Then in later years, "DIAMOND,DULUTH" Another American company, with American workers Bites the dust..Or, are they still going?   [Reply]  [No Email]
Bud Sather in MT 02-22-2013 08:24:33 66.113.52.83 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   How does Menford go to Bud? Simple, my brother could not say my name so he called me brother which later on went to Bud??????? Bud   [Reply]  [No Email]
Rich'sToys 02-22-2013 10:51:06 74.44.57.128 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Bud Sather in MT, 02-22-2013 08:24:33   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see I think "Bud" and "Butch" tend to be adopted when someone has an uncommon or unusual name. I knew a "Marvel" and an "Ellswoth", both of whom were called "Bud". I also knew an "Edgar" who was called "Butch".   [Reply]  [No Email]
michael price 02-22-2013 08:20:28 50.33.161.94 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   What about old people calling a couch a davenport?   [Reply]  [No Email]
ShadetreeRet 02-22-2013 20:43:55 184.4.20.29 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to michael price, 02-22-2013 08:20:28   I looked up "Davenport" in the dictionary. "A large couch that can be made into a bed" It said that the name apparently came from the manufacturer. Kinda like calling all refrigerators a Kelvinator , or Frigidaire.   [Reply]  [No Email]
red.green 02-22-2013 07:26:35 76.209.54.137 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   My Grandfather and his son (my uncle) were both named Robert, however my grandfather was known as Rob and my uncle is known as Bob. My father is named John, but on my mother’s side he is called Jack, and also on my mother’s side I had an uncle Jack whose real name was Kenneth, (figure that one out) so there was/is to Jacks neither one “real”.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Mike (WA) 02-22-2013 09:50:07 69.10.199.246 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to red.green, 02-22-2013 07:26:35   Or the lady in the Beatles song "Rocky Racoon"- "Her name was McGill, but she called herself Lil, and everyone knew her as Nancy." The rest of the song is just as off-the-wall.   [Reply]  [No Email]
GordoSD 02-22-2013 08:02:18 216.106.243.55 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to red.green, 02-22-2013 07:26:35   If he was stranded up on a roof, would you help your uncle jack off?   [Reply]  [No Email]
Texasmark1 02-22-2013 06:27:23 198.45.243.137 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   How bout the "Crescent" wrench. To this day I still refer to an adjustable wrench as a Crescent, whether Crescent is the brand name or not. In industry, we were taught to refer to the companies products by their descriptive noun (adjustable wrench) not by the company trademark (Crescent) lest they loose their patent rights early. Mark   [Reply]  [No Email]
Dr. Walt 02-22-2013 06:05:39 12.2.223.79 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   "Fridge" is short for Fridgedaire , an early maker of the "modern" refrigerator.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Rich'sToys 02-22-2013 05:50:47 74.44.57.128 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   Most of the nicknames make at least some sense. But the one I never did figure out is how "Margaret" became "Peggy"!   [Reply]  [No Email]
Goose 02-22-2013 07:23:54 70.197.197.160 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Rich'sToys, 02-22-2013 05:50:47   Same here. I've known at least two Margarets that were called Peggy, and they couldn't explain it either. There's a little town in Nebraska named Steinauer. To the locals it's "Steener".   [Reply]  [No Email]
Nebraska Kirk 02-22-2013 08:25:47 207.91.4.159 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Goose, 02-22-2013 07:23:54   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see That is true, I aught to know as I live there! I use the correct pronunciation when talking to strangers though. If you use the "correct" pronunciation to many locals they will have a blank look on their face and say "huh?" :lol:   [Reply]  [No Email]
scotc 02-24-2013 10:49:47 75.234.163.66 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Nebraska Kirk, 02-22-2013 08:25:47   Similar things happen when you mention be-uh-trice, NE, Char-lit MI, Char-lot NC, and la-fay-et IN. By the way, it's char-lot MI, char-lit NC, law-fiy-et IN, and be-at-rice, NE.   [Reply]  [No Email]
da.bees 02-24-2013 11:58:24 72.181.183.240 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to scotc, 02-24-2013 10:49:47   I think it must have roots in Are-can-sus,or is it Are-can-saw? Don't get that confused with Your Kansas , Their Kansas and My Kansas. What can you expect with guys running the place for years having names like, Mickey Dale "Mike" Bebee Michael Dale "Mike" Huckabee James Guy "Jim" Tucker William Jefferson Blythe III "Bill" Clinton   [Reply]  [No Email]
wolfman 02-22-2013 08:53:21 174.140.65.158 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Nebraska Kirk, 02-22-2013 08:25:47   Had a foreign exchange student from Japan. I'm sure even HE could not spell or pronounce his name. I called him Toyota, he smiled. Wonder I didn't get fired!   [Reply]  [No Email]
showcrop 02-22-2013 05:04:41 75.67.231.80 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   Here are two spellings that puzzle me. How does Pizza become pizzer when you put it into the name of the place where thy make it? Pizzeria instead of Pizzaria. You launder your clothes but instead of taking them to a laundermat it is a laundromat.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Chris(WA) 02-22-2013 08:11:36 64.38.158.247 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to showcrop, 02-22-2013 05:04:41   Lanudromat is a contrived word invented from Laundry and Automatic. Meant to sound modern when they first were introduced. That one I knew!   [Reply]  [No Email]
Phil Scarborough 02-22-2013 04:46:31 81.147.12.147 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   One of my staff engineers was called Gulam Rashul Bhayat. We called him Mick.   [Reply]  [No Email]
low budget 02-22-2013 05:52:56 74.37.255.176 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Phil Scarborough, 02-22-2013 04:46:31   There was a farmer of Polish descent that lived near where I grew up. His name started with G and was 13 letters long. No one could pronounce it so people just called him G13.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Goose 02-22-2013 07:28:29 70.197.197.160 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to low budget, 02-22-2013 05:52:56   When I was in boot camp in the Marine Corps, we had a kid in our platoon with a long, impossible Polish name. The Drill Instructor said, "As long as you're in my platoon, your name is Smith". We had no other Smiths. And it worked. The DI would call "Smith" and the kid would answer up. In fact, we all called him Smith.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Rich'sToys 02-22-2013 10:46:29 74.44.57.128 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Goose, 02-22-2013 07:28:29   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see The one we had in our platoon was just called "Alphabet".   [Reply]  [No Email]
Dan T in Mo 02-22-2013 16:47:49 166.181.3.97 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Rich'sToys, 02-22-2013 10:46:29   Had a student once with an impossible to pronounce name. One day, another student looked at her and said "Can I buy a vowell?"   [Reply]  [No Email]
Dick L 02-22-2013 04:26:29 50.51.184.132 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   When I was a kid every refrigerator was called a (Fridgidaire)in our family anyway. We had a Philco Fridgidaire. My grand parents had Westinghouse Fridgidare.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Keith Molden 02-22-2013 03:51:00 167.239.222.81 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   I think perhaps it may be short for Frigidare brand that was so popular a few years ago. Don't really have a clue, but that's my guess. Keith   [Reply]  [No Email]
Row Crop 02-22-2013 03:45:21 75.100.207.79 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   Robert called Bob is bad enough, but how do you get Bill from William?   [Reply]  [No Email]
DeltaRed 02-22-2013 08:16:23 71.208.184.148 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Row Crop, 02-22-2013 03:45:21   I have wondered that too.My father "William" was known as "Bill".My name is "Steven William".Should I be called "Steve Bill"?   [Reply]  [No Email]
John B. 02-22-2013 04:44:42 38.114.64.177 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Row Crop, 02-22-2013 03:45:21   That and how do they get Jack from John or vise-versus   [Reply]  [No Email]
Rollie NE PA 02-22-2013 09:43:36 108.50.10.216 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to John B., 02-22-2013 04:44:42   My father was John, refered to as Jack. My name is Roland, called Rollie. After 62 years some people I grew up with call me Ronnie.   [Reply]  [No Email]
Old Popper 02-22-2013 04:20:46 216.51.202.134 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Row Crop, 02-22-2013 03:45:21   We have a fellow at work named Tom. We call him Wingnut.   [Reply]  [No Email]
da.bees 02-21-2013 23:19:35 72.181.183.240 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to George Marsh, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see I hope your bull turns out gay if you get that debate going again. :twisted:   [Reply]  [No Email]
da.bees 02-21-2013 23:12:12 72.181.183.240 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Larry NEIL, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   "Back in the day"when all pipe wrenches were "Stilson Wrench"or "monkey Wrench",half of the people called a refrigerator ice box because that's where milk had been stored for years and the other half called them Fridgidaire because that was who built many early boxes. I bet you remember hearing it. My 3yo granddaughter calls it a figilator :)   [Reply]  [No Email]
Hoofer B 02-22-2013 03:18:52 64.7.166.43 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to da.bees, 02-21-2013 23:12:12   Mr. da.bees. I found the missing "d" for refrigerator. It is grandaughter. lol.   [Reply]  [No Email]
in-too-deep 02-22-2013 04:48:38 70.197.195.73 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Hoofer B, 02-22-2013 03:18:52   Clever! Haha   [Reply]  [No Email]
michael price 02-21-2013 22:11:24 50.33.161.94 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to Stick welding, 02-21-2013 22:02:07   How does Mike become short for Michael? I guess someone spelled something one way and it stuck. Like electricity flowing from + to - even though it really goes - to +   [Reply]  [No Email]
Dr. Walt 02-22-2013 06:17:44 12.2.223.79 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to michael price, 02-21-2013 22:11:24   Michael: Speaking of electricity: What do you get when you mate AC with DC ? Answer: A "Current" affair.   [Reply]  [No Email]
McBride 02-22-2013 02:43:06 209.239.114.234 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to michael price, 02-21-2013 22:11:24   How did Dick become short for Richard?   [Reply]  [No Email]
SweetFeet 02-22-2013 03:26:30 70.35.103.74 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to McBride, 02-22-2013 02:43:06   Agreed. How did Jack become the familiar version of John? To me, they seem to be two entirely different names.   [Reply]  [No Email]
low budget 02-22-2013 03:39:07 74.37.254.141 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to SweetFeet, 02-22-2013 03:26:30   John is Jacques in French, mispronounced as Jack by English. Names get shortened, letters changed, rhymed, etc as nicknames.Richard, Rich, Rick, Dick. Robert, Rob, Bob   [Reply]  [No Email]
SweetFeet 02-22-2013 04:38:21 70.35.103.74 Report to Moderator	Re: Odd spelling... in reply to low budget, 02-22-2013 03:39:07   low budget, Thanks! Richard to Rich, and Robert to Rob make sense to me. The others are strange derivatives.   [Reply]  [No Email]