On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 15:25:41 -0700 (PDT), "
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>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.

"Nicholas" wouln't work in Australia. Australians don't do words of
more than 2 syllables.