Discussion HPDH

[Geoff]

No: HPFGUIDX 190788



--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, June Ewing <doctorwhofan02 at ...> wrote:

June:
> Short form names are some time confusing (hence the reason the person who started this was confused by Bill be short for William) Like you Geoff my brother Bill (he is actually my step brother) and I don't like to be called by our full first names. While Bill prefers not to be called William my first name is Roberta and I prefer Bobbi, Robbi, Robin or my middle name, June. But as I said short forms can be misleading. As I had posted earlier, as well as Bill and Will being short forms for William, so is Liam a short form for William. My uncle Jack's name was actually John but Jack is another version of John (I don't like to call it a short form because it is not shorter). Then as I noted earlier some people call me Robin which is a nick name for Robert or Roberta. I had found a description on line for William and if you google it I am sure there are more explanations for short forms and how they came about.

Geoff:
A bit OT but I didn't include Jack/John because it is more of a nickname than 
a shortening.

Returning to  William, Liam is not used n the UK as an abbreviation;  it is a 
"complete" name with an Irish Gaelic origin.