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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.
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 .
Not all these nicknames are bad.
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.
The British have always been free with their use of nicknames, which, being descriptive, are useful to historians.