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Names are a tricky subject in English as in any language, but happily a very few facts go a long way towards explaining the origins of hundreds of English nicknames and family names.
Two of these nicknames developed notorious associations: Oliver Cromwell was known as Iron Noll , and the children's verses of Ambrose Philips ensured the everlasting fame of his nickname, Namby Pamby .
Nicknames are very common among Chicanos, but a placa is specifically a gang-related name and often very well describes the person as perceived by friends or other gang members.
On Some Secrets of English Nicknames, by Ralph Emerson: the article did not mention a common Australian nickname pattern.
He grew up all the way east on 76 th Street, in Yorkville, and although he seems to have been a mama's boy, a loner who liked to read, tough guys in the neighborhood gave him nicknames like Red, Runt, and Short Shit, and forced him to learn how to fight.