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Placenames Used as Nicknames: A Study of Major League Baseball Players
Names, 1990 From the beginning of major league baseball, at least 122 players have had nicknames taken from placenames, the majority used in the early twentieth century.
James K. Skipper
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The System of Nicknames in a Dialect Speaker’s Onomasticon [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2015 The article aims to provide a multidimensional analysis of the nicknames system in the idiolect of a speaker of one of the Russian dialects of the Middle Ob River area.
Ekaterina A. Berestova
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Graphic Models of Nicknames in the German-Speaking Internet-Space
Вестник Волгоградского государственного университета: Серия 2. Языкознание, 2015 The object of the study is a specific anthroponymic element of the onomastic system in German – the network name (nickname) and its representation in the German section of the Internet.
Viktoriya Viktorovna Kazyaba
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Névtani Értesítő, 2005 Nicknames in village Som The author examines the nicknames from the village Som, a Hungarian settlement in district Beregszász (Ukraine), near the Hungarian border.
András Kovács
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MBOJO NICKNAMES: REVIEWING THE CLIPPING PROCESS OF BIMANESE PERSONAL NAMES [PDF]
Celtic, 2020 It is the aim of the study to reveal the distinctive clipping process that takes place in the word formation of nicknames in Mbojo which is one of the major ethnic groups in Bima and its surroundings. Moreover, this study employed qualitative method. The
Rosalin Ismayoeng Gusdian +1 more
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The sound patterns of English nicknames [PDF]
, 1997 The English lexicon has been found to reflect certain recognisable phonological preferences in relation to consonants, vowels, stress patterns and syllabic structure, and these trends have been reflected in sharper terms in analyses of particular subsets
Bosch, B, De Klerk, Vivian A
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Looking Back to Beaver and the Head: Male College Nicknames in the 1950s
Names, 1994 Studies of nicknames have neglected social fraternities, and most have been done by outsiders unable to assess the feelings of those who bear nicknames. I questioned members of a social fraternity to which I belonged in the late 1950s to find out how men
Thomas J. Gasque
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Nicknames among Swati clans: A socio-cultural analysis
LiteratorNicknames are common in African societies. In Swati families, the use of nicknames is widespread and almost every member of a family possesses one. The nicknames are given to people in addition to their personal names from a young age until adulthood ...
Muzi Matfunjwa +2 more
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Teachers nicknames: Micro research in onomastics [PDF]
Sinteze, 2012 This paper studies teacher's nicknames in the primary school Vuk Karadžić in Kruševac gathered through a survey for which the students were requested to state a teacher‟s nickname, its originator and motivations.
Kostić-Stamenović Karolina +1 more
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Toward a Theory of Nicknames: A Case for Socio-Onomastics
Names, 1990 To develop a form of analysis for nicknames and nicknaming, we propose a theoretical construct, using our empirical knowledge of nicknames, and posit a uniquely sociological perspective that describes and explains nicknames as aspects of the process of ...
Paul L. Leslie, James K. Skipper
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