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There’s an English cricketer called Ben Duckett. His nickname among Australian fans when playing for their local team appears to be “Autocorrect” Autocorrectso
by harry8 2y ago
There’s an English cricketer called Ben Duckett. His nickname among Australian fans when playing for their local team appears to be “Autocorrect”
Autocorrectson sounds like a fine family name.
In England it’d be “Duckyson”
I wonder if there are real examples of more creative nicknames becoming surnames.
- cjs_ac 2y agoGrosvenor, from gros venor, 'fat hunter'.
- card_zero 2y agoThat's excellent. I'm intrigued by Beaglehole, Clutterbuck, Cronk, Dingus, Eggink, Footlick, Gimbel, Hipkiss, Hollobone, Limp, Midgette, Mincey, Muddle, Nettleship, Noblin, Ogletree, Owl, Pardon, Pickles, Puffinburger, Riddles, Smelley, Spankie, Splatt, Thicknesse, Toadvine, Tremblay, Tubby, Twaddle, Twitt, Underdown, Whatmuff, Windy, Winker, and Wrong, but they probably mostly have mundane and logical origins. The ancestral Pickles probably just pickled things a lot, for instance.
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- walthamstow 2y agoUnsurprisingly the family behind this Norman French aristocratic name owns most of west London. The Duke of Westminster is one Hugh Grosvenor.
- madcaptenor 2y ago"Autocorrect" as in "ducking autocorrect won't let me curse"?
- harry8 2y agoSomething like that I guess.
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