The name 'Kendra'

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 179423

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
>
> --- , "Elizabeth Snape" <snapes_witch@> wrote:
> >
> >  "Bruce Alan Wilson" wrote:
> > >
> > > To the person who couldn't see calling a boy "Harry", Harry is 
> > > short for Henry. It goes back to Shakespeare. It could also be 
> > > short for Harold.

bboyminn:

> Close but not quite, Prince Harry's name is really -
> 
> Henry Charles Albert David Windsor
> 
> Amoung some parents, they prefer to give their kids a nickname
> type name rather than a formal name. For example, I had a 
> friend who was named 'Jimmy' rather than 'James'.  Jimmy is 
> the name on his birth certificate. 

Geoff:
Traditionally in the UK, certain names have always tended to be 
shortened when used informally. I don't mean, as in my own 
case, Geoffrey/Geoff or, say, Frederick/Fred, Joanne/Jo or Antony/Tony 
but with a change in spelling:

Harold =  Harry
Terence = Terry
Sarah = Sally
William = Bill
Robert = Bob
and so on.

There is also a habit, particularly among Cockneys to give further 
abbreviate so giving a name ending in 'l'...

Terry = Tel
Harry = Hal (also Shakespearian)
Sally  = Sal

But there has been a growing tendency for many of these 
shortened versions to become given names ands appearing 
as such on Birth Certificates. I saw this a lot as a teacher. So it 
is quite feasible that Harry could be, as Steve, remarks 'just Harry'.