Posted by Allan_Lang on February 02, 2013 at 16:46:48 user Allan_Lang.
In Reply to: Re: Peggy sometimes Margaret (was posted by Robert Hill on :
Peggy as a familiar form of Margaret is widely known and used throughout the English-speaking world, and not confined to the Blackett family, so the Billies would think it perfectly normal to use it.On the other hand, Ruth Blackett's insistence on being called Nancy would be seen as a personal peculiarity, which she would probably not mention to adults except those she knew reasonably well.
Or, Familiarty. Peggy had been Peggy forever, while Ruth only became Nancy sometime after she became an Amazon Pirate about a year previously, and the word hasn't gotten around to become habit yet