On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 4:05:14 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
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> On 2018-07-26 2:33 PM, wrote:
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> > On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:17:09 -0700 (PDT), "
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> >> It's also a nickname for Terence/Terrence; hence Terry.
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> > I never met anyone named Terence/Terrence. Terry is a towel.
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> I have known several guys named Terence, but most of them went by Terry.
> There was one Terrence who insisted on Terrence, not Terry. He said he
> did not like being referred to in the diminutive. He was a university
> professor, and I always expected that he should know the difference
> between the diminutive and the familiar.
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My brother has two little boys named Kenneth and Nicholas. They were
adamant when each was born they were not be called Kenny or Nicky.