Comment on How did we get "bike" from "bicycle"?
LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 6 days agoIt’s cause there were too many Williams, Richards, and Roberts. They shortened to Will, Rick, and Rob. But there were still too many so they started substituting the first letter.
Now you have Bill, Bob, and Dick.
Those got pretty popular just on their own so now they’re just common shortenings.
toast@retrolemmy.com 6 days ago
Fully agreed, but it bothers me that you changed the order of the resulting names