Posted by Jenny Berki on November 17, 2006 at 16:09:00 from 217.205.198.23 user JennyB.
In Reply to: Twins in fiction (Was Re: Coddling children) posted by Pam Adams on November 16, 2006 at 19:23:24:
I've never heard of the Bobbsey Twins, but will try and read about them now.
Seeing their names - Nan, Bert, Freddie & Flossie - I'd say on the whole, most children's names in literature are shortened to a familiar form. Yet AR has Susan not Sue, Roger not Rog, Nancy not Nan. Peggy, Titty and Dick are shortened, and Dorothea is occasionally Dot (but not usually). In CC/BS, they're all shortened - Tom, Nell, Bess, Pete, Joe & Bill - except George & Ralph (which probably can't be shortened anyway).