Nicknames
I was talking to Jack just now about how his actual name is John, and he’s surprised by how many people don’t realize Jack is a nickname for John, especially given the historical visibility of John/Jack Kennedy. He was saying how everybody knows that Bill is a nickname for William, which made me wonder how that nickname came about in the first place. That B just came out of nowhere! Yes, Will is also a nickname, but Bill is just as popular or even more so.
That made me think about Robert/Bob, which also has an inexplicable B. I decided it would be cool to name a baby Bobert. Denny thinks it’s a bad idea, and Jack isn’t too fond of it either, but it is a very funny idea to imagine a cute little baby named Bobert.
(Note: the inclusion of this picture of Daphne, who is not actually named Bobert, is a joke in reference to the fact that that particular picture has become the default baby image, Internet-wide. It comes up on the first page of hits when you do a Google images search on the term “baby.”)
