Re: Margaret and Peggy

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Posted by Ian E-N on July 17, 2002 at 12:46:51 from 148.88.0.10 user IanEN.

In Reply to: Margaret and Peggy posted by Dan Lind on July 16, 2002 at -1:17:32:

it's a diminutive form of Maggie - itself short for Margaret.

In fact as definition of "diminutive" Webster's has:-

indicating small size and sometimes the state or quality of being familiarly known, lovable, pitiable, or contemptible -- used of affixes (as -ette, -kin, -ling) and of words formed with them (as kitchenette, manikin, duckling), of clipped forms (as Jim), and of altered forms (as Peggy); compare AUGMENTATIVE

mebbe "pe" being a softer sound than "ma" ?

our Peggy (d.o.b 18th January) should, for generations of both families reasons, have been a Margaret. However for political and Ransome reasons she was pre-abridged.

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