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You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. I have a dear friend who has an 8-yr-old Henry who is nicknamed Hank. She only introduces him as Hank unless the circumstances require his official name. So their brains are catching up to what the answer actually is.
Very few people need to know it is John goes by Jack. He looked at me strangely when I said Sally was a nn for Sarah. Okay, hubby knew! Which in my mind means the non-name nerd population at large has a good chance of knowing. He mentioned that he knew because in some movie there was a character who referred to Jack Daniels as John Daniels because they were such good friends.
Maybe I am not the name hobbyist I thought I was. I agree with an earlier commenter about Tallulah. You can call him what you want.
I live in Australia and I had absolutely no idea that Jack was a nickname for John. I would never have seen a direct link between them. A couple of years ago I came across a new mum who had called her son Jim. This would have been about nine years ago.
It was more like Jo h n was the nickname. Maybe when I learned why Jack was such a common name in nursery rhymes. I thought Peggy for Margaret was common knowledge too, although there are many women just named Peggy, not Margaret. I think many people are unaware of Daisy for Margaret I may have learned this from reading Little Women, or maybe it was from name books , Maisie for Margaret and Polly for Mary, and perhaps Hank for Henry.
I have had Johns in my family but they were just called John. I think Jack and John are both great names. I I live in Australia and unlike a previous commenter I have always known that Jack is a nickname for John. And I have also known that Jack is quite legitimately a standalone name.
And yes, Jack is the name listed on his birth certificate. Regardless, I think it is immaterial whether people know that this is a standard nickname or not. As far as every one else is concerned, the name that your son goes by is Jack. End of story. Why should you have to explain anything at all?
Sorry you are dealing with weird looks on a classic seemingly non-issue name. Surely not. People may ask why he has a different nickname. If someone is more curious, and really does want to hear more of an explanation than Jack is a traditional nickname for John, I would give them the history of its origin from Jankin and Jenkin medieval diminutives of John , which became Jakin, then Jack. I think the OP mentioned this. And at that point, you may want to save yourself some pain and not worry about convincing them of the legitimacy-rooted-in-history nature of your nickname choice.
Well, most people. Some might enjoy learning something new. Great name! Hopefully that satisfies them. Dick, of course, is the only rhyming nickname that stuck over time. And boy did it stick. There are many theories on why Bill became a nickname for William; the most obvious is that it was part of the Middle Ages trend of letter swapping. Much how Dick is a rhyming nickname for Rick, the same is true of Bill and Will.
Because hard consonants are easier to pronounce than soft ones, some believe Will morphed into Bill for phonetic reasons. The name Henry dates back to medieval England. Curiously, at that time, Hank was a diminutive for John. So how do we get Hank from Henry? Well, one theory says that Hendrick is the Dutch form of the English name Henry. Henk is the diminutive form of Hendrick, ergo, Hank from Henk. Hanks were hugely popular here in the States for many decades, though by the early 90s it no longer appeared in the top 1, names for baby boys.
But Hank is making a comeback! In , it cracked the top 1,, settling at By it was up to There have been eccentric, charming, rebellious men who have borne other names, but not nearly as many as those who have answered to Jack, with an especially high hit rate among hell-raisers, highwaymen, pirates and unruly squires. Two of my favourites are Calico Jack, the pirate, and Sixteen String Jack, the highwayman, both snappy dressers, both more interested in the crack than the moolah, both hanged.
More recently, there's Jack Purvis, the legendary lost jazz musician, criminal, chef and proprietor of a Florida school of Grecian dancing, and Jack Parsons, the rocket scientist who practised black magic, blew himself up, and has a crater named after him on the dark naturally side of the moon. Jacks have often been generously gifted but attractively flawed.
Two great Englishmen, one imagined, one real, the rambunctious Sir John Falstaff and the radical John Wilkes, both answered to Jack, and both stand as fine examples.
Jack London and Jack Kerouac, chroniclers of American adventure, lived their books and died young, ruined by fame and excess. John F Kennedy's reputation is a touch tarnished by what might be termed the Jackish parts of his personality, the taste for the fast and louche.
My own father was particularly undull, a lively Lancastrian much given to offering helpful advice such as, upon entering coach or plane, "Sit at the back, you'll get a longer ride. Is there any evidence, though, beyond the anecdotal, that your name influences your behaviour? We are also likely to go into jobs that have associations with our names. Remarkably, it seems that all those names that make you chuckle are no coincidence.
There was a hidden impulse in the career paths of Miss Sharp the music teacher, Mr C Ensor, chairman of Bedford borough council's standards committee and Mr Peter Atchoo, the pneumonia specialist.
Living up - or down - to Jack, then, should not be much of a challenge.
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