Seeing Chip Carter's beautiful eulogy is reminding me of a fancy-people thing that I never learned until well into adulthood.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad.
Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
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My phone keyboard has a very weird word deleting bug and it’s driving me insane.
"Trey, eh? My older brother's a Trey!"
"No, it's Tsvey. My grandpa died young."
Because he’s the fifth.
also, fancypants fuckheads can still fuck off and die.
Since you seem to know fun stuff like this, do you know if it's true that "Bubba" is generally a nickname for a male second child, aka Baby Brother? That's what I've always heard.
Is it like live without the L? Or like the first syllable of ivy?
Is there a fancy-people reason that explains Peggy being a nickname of Margaret?
It's possibly because the only person I've ever met who went by Skip had one of those names that migrated from a mostly masculine to mostly feminine one, so I figured he just wanted to avoid it as much as possible.
And this makes me wonder if it's not even more layered than I realized.
I can now log off the internet for the day.
Quintus - 5th
Sixtus - 6th
Septimus - 7th
Octavius - 8th
Decimus - 10th
I don’t recall the 9th…
The only one I knew previously was that when UVA-frat types were called Trey, that was WASP code for, like, Walter Breakwater the Third.
That didn't happen, (no I'm not telling you my name, what are you a fae?).
It wasn't great to be part of that family in general. A couple came out OK (Marie, maybe Luc), but you'd think they were pretty scarred by the end.
(And Rogi's "poor doomed nephew" could have been Denis)
I'd not know much about that part of the world as I don't think I could live much further away if I tried. My brother got me the original Saga of the Exiles in a secondhand bookstore in a town called Karratha in 1990 (look that one up for far from New England)
https://www.wildcardsworld.com/characters/ti-malice/
Thank you 💜 for your knowledge & kindness to share
Chip off the old block? Skip a generation?
Wow
What does "Butch" mean and where does it come from?
What do you call a guy who's named after hid dad, granddad, and great granddad?
I ask because a friend of mine is "So-and-So, IV".
BUTCH: Butch.
ESMARELDA: Butch. What does it mean?
BUTCH: I'm an American, our names don't mean shit.
— Pulp Fiction
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/demijohn
Wow.
Today I learned!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trip_Tucker
Applying this to The Virgin Suicides and Trip Fontaine...
Granny? Nancy.
Mom? Nancy.
Daughter? Nancy.
Chip off the old block
Skipped a generation
Triple naming
Not that I've ever heard of anyone called Trip, but still fab.
I am a child. Truly.
I love when I learn something new.🤦🏻♀️
Chip has Chris, Stefan, and Tristan; maybe the latter is Trip?
Chipper Jones got his nickname for pretty much the same reason as Chip
Especially Skip and Trip. Why name them for someone and never use the name? XD
Sweep is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather.
Creep is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.
Firstname Middlename Lastname Sr. = goes by Firstname.
Firstname Middlename Lastname Jr. = goes by Middlename.
Firstname Middlename Lastname III = goes by Trey.
I've been told that II is used instead of Junior for a non-firstborn son with the same name or if it skips a generation but I dunno if that's accurate.