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With their taste for irreverent nicknames, Berliners have deflated the monuments’ imperial or pacifist intentions by dubbing the original church the “broken tooth” and the two main additions the “lipstick” and “powder compact.”
Traditional Welsh nicknames, on the decline with population changes and the break-up of communities once dominated by the coal industry, need to be collected before they are lost forever, says Christie Davies, Professor of Sociology at Reading University.
Many of the resulting forms remain current as nicknames (or indeed as names in their own right), others are preserved only in patronymics, and still others have vanished entirely.
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.
In his “Feather Report” of 27 October 1990, in The Times , Simon Barnes lists the following nicknames for the nightjar: fernowl, fen owl, jar-owl, churn-owl, goat-owl, goatsucker, nighthawk, dorhawk, moth hawk, wheelbird, puck bird, litch fowl , and gabble ratch , the last having its origins in the Norse meaning `corpse hound,' (similar to litch fowl , which means `corpse fowl').