Dick is short for Richard

[John Reynolds]

How much shorter than John can you get?! Poor John...

You certainly weren't complaining the other night.

 

[London Geezer]

You certainly weren't complaining the other night.

WHEN! I can't remember, didn't feel anything.

 

[silence]

just tell us....is he really John or maybe Richard?

 

[John Reynolds]

WHEN! I can't remember, didn't feel anything.

That's funny, neither did I. Sure heard a helluva lot of echoes though.

 

[London Geezer]

That's funny, neither did I. Sure heard a helluva lot of echoes though.

Well at least you found your way out!

 

[John Reynolds]

Well at least you found your way out!

No kidding. Thank god for the 2-by-4 strapped across my ass.

 

[Geo]

No kidding. Thank god for the 2-by-4 strapped across my ass.

See, now you're just being mean. Surely he would have noticed a 2x4. Splinters and all.

 

[silence]

See, now you're just being mean. Surely he would have noticed a 2x4. Splinters and all.

well.....we are talking about LB.... who knows what would he notice....

 

[bouy]

Isn't Larry is short for Lawrence?
And Scooter for Scott?

There's a bunch more

 

[silence]

How is Scooter shorter then Sccoty?

 

[bouy]

I wasn't asking if it was shorter, should have said if it was a nickname or not.

 

[Guden Oden]

Why is Charlie short for Charles if it's got one more syllable in it than the original name?

 

[Humus]

Anyone catched "Battle of the Jaywalk allstars" on Jay Leno like a week ago or so? The question was about Richard Nixon's nickname, which of course was Dick, and one of the girls went like "uhm, that's not very nice, calling him a dick!". It was pretty funny.

 

[rwolf]

Al is short for Algernon.

or Allan

 

[rwolf]

BTW, why on earth is Dick short for Richard? (I made this thread after watching the "Young Guns" DVD again last nite, Charlie Sheen being Richard being Dick). I mean, shouldn't Dick be short for, like, Dickholas, or that the short for Richard would be, well, Rich?!?

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DICK
Gender: Masculine
Usage: English
Pronounced: DIK [key]
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Medieval short form of RICHARD. The change in the initial consonant is said to have been caused by the way the trilled Norman R was pronounced by the English