ST Alpha - "There are surprisingly few monosyllabic common English male first names that aren't a nickname for a multisyllabic name " (Reading a Post)

SlickerTalk
Search Archives
The Leaderboard
The FAQ

Down to Post

Backboards:

Posts: 153

There are surprisingly few monosyllabic common English male first names that aren't a nickname for a multisyllabic name

Posted by prayformojo (aka mayhem) Feb 2 '15, 08:16

We could only come up with a few

John
Paul
George
Lance
Bruce (but not Julian!)
Mark (to the extent that it's not short for Marcus)

Responses:

Bort. -- nm - Reagen Feb 2, 08:24 2
- [deleted] 1
  - [deleted]
Burt, Blair, Bart, Brent, Hugh, Dirk, Earl, Ford, Jude, Jay, Keith, Kent, Ross, Roy, Scott, Sean, Todd, Trent -- nm - loosi at home Feb 2, 08:22 3
- Bertrum, Bartholomew -- nm - zork Feb 2, 08:27 1
  - ok, I'll give those up. :) -- nm - loosi at home Feb 2, 08:29
- Neil, Ward, Wade, Ralph, Craig, Reed, Clay,Clarke, Dean, Dwayne, Wayne -- nm - loosi at home Feb 2, 08:26
Carl/Karl -- nm - ty97 Feb 2, 08:20
there are lots of Jacks now, that are just Jack. James. Clark. Ralph. Earl. -- nm - Andie Feb 2, 08:19
Chad, Neil, Kurt -- nm - Epiphany Feb 2, 08:18
Luke, Charles, James -- nm - Roger More Feb 2, 08:18 9
- Craig, Bruce -- nm - Roger More Feb 2, 08:20
- James was another we came up with; we discounted Luke b/c of Lucas (?); Charles is one syllable for you? interesting -- nm - prayformojo Feb 2, 08:19 7
  - I don't think Luke is short for Lucas in most cases. -- nm - spamlet Feb 2, 08:21 1
    - just because some people don't know the origin of their kid's name doesn't mean it's not a short form -- nm - zork Feb 2, 08:49
  - If there's a Gospel named for Luke, it's not a nickname for Lucas. How is Charles two syllables when Wales is apparently one? -- nm - Roger More Feb 2, 08:21 3
    - half of those Disciple name are short for Simon, apparently -- nm - zork Feb 2, 08:29 1
      - plus how many of those are Anglicized and completely different in the original languages? -- nm - zork Feb 2, 08:35
    - Oh no. Not Wales again. -- nm - spamlet Feb 2, 08:23
  - Luke/Lucas? Then John should be out, for sure. -- nm - Ultron Feb 2, 08:20
Jonathan? -- nm - Ultron Feb 2, 08:17

Post a message top

There are surprisingly few monosyllabic common English male first names that aren't a nickname for a multisyllabic name

Replies are disabled on threads older than 7 days.