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Billium

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Also, Peggy is short for Margaret 🤯

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this one makes me violent

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Ya that one has always bothered me. It makes zero sense. That’s like having Mark be short for Brennan.

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Some nicknames do a consonant shift for the first letter, like William > Will > Willy > Billy

Margaret > Meg > Meggy > Peggy

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Wait, really?

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Yes, really.

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Chuck is short for Charles

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The best married couple, Henry and Margaret Hill.

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The lost element

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I have actually met someone named Billiam

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