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Example sentences for: nicknames

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Although insulting nicknames form a small fraction of the Italian surname pool, chances are that anyone who knows any Italians has participated in this ancient slanging-match.
These nicknames originated as possessives, since Middle English words beginning with a vowel or silent h took the possessive mine instead of my ; so instead of my Anne, people said mine Anne, which was reinterpreted as my Nan, just as the animal once called an eft or an ewt is now known as a newt.
Traditional nicknames in England like Dusty Miller and Chalky White tended to disappear some time ago, and it is simply happening later in Wales, said Prof Davies.
As nicknames, most forms in this set are obsolete, and perhaps for good reason: I knew a Melissa who absolutely hated being called Missy.
The British have always been free with their use of nicknames, which, being descriptive, are useful to historians.