Nicknames

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 185625

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:

Geoff:
> > That may be Harry's interpretation but, as I quoted from a
> dictionary a day or so ago, the definition does not rule out being
> used in a derogatory way. I don't suppose that Richard Nixon thought
> very highly of "Tricky Dicky".

Carol:
> "Tricky Dick" (no second "y") was an epithet, not a nickname. 

Geoff:
In the UK, it did have a "y" to make it rhyme. And the papers used it so 
much that I would see it as a nickname.

To be realistic I think this is like my "contro-versy" to someone else's 
"controv-ersy". "You say tomay-to, I say to-mahto, let's call the whole 
thing off."