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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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Som ragadványnevei

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, Azizatul Zuhra   +1 more
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Nicknames among Swati clans: A socio-cultural analysis

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Nicknames 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, Respect Mlambo, Nomsa Skosana   +2 more
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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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Ragadványnév-adási motivációk budapesti fiatalok körében

Névtani Értesítő, 2009
Motivations for giving nicknames among the young in Budapest This paper carries out a motivation-based categorisation of the nicknames of 200 young people (100 females and 100 males) living in Budapest.
Éva Heltovics
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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, Dragumilo-Stefanović Marija   +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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Old Norse Nicknames: Origins and Terminology

Names, 2019
Nicknames, which occur in all cultures and time periods, play a unique role in highlighting identity. The pool of first names has always been relatively limited, thus most people were identified by their nicknames, especially before surnames became ...
Paul R. Peterson
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Nicknames in Video Gaming: Functional Use and Variation [PDF]

Вопросы ономастики, 2020
The article discusses the use of nicknames in online games (specifically, the Dota 2 game) which constitutes a completely new field of onomastic research.
Margarita A. Klimova
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