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Dick is short for Richard

• lasc4r 8y ago
  I imagine during a regular class he was Professor Feynman, during Physics X he was just Dick Feynman.
• penguin_booze 8y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocorism#English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocorism#English
  • HorizonXP 8y ago
    Good link, I didn't know that's what nicknames were called.
    • saagarjha 8y ago
      Nicknames seem to be a superset of hypocorisms, which are nicknames that are a shorter derivative or other modification of a person’s original name.