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And with notes of pride, those rags that have earned pejorative names in the local lore use those sobriquets in private correspondence, saloon chat, and unofficial résumés.
This is the origin of the surnames Hobbes and Hopkins (i.e., Hobs and Hobkins ), Dodge cars, and Alfred Hitchcock , among other things, including some famous sobriquets.
Early turn is generally known colloquially as early worm , but the other two have no sobriquets.
The ostensible reason for such name changes was to confuse the tsarist police, but consideration of the root meanings of the names chosen by the revolutionaries reveals that the sobriquets were at least as much noms de guerre as noms de plume or cover names.