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Example sentences for: nicknames

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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.
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The British have always been free with their use of nicknames, which, being descriptive, are useful to historians.
In many of the valley communities the nicknames, usually reserved for men rather than women, arose from their job, or an unfortunate incident, or a physical or speech defect.