Peoples Names You Can't Shorten
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Chambers Dictionary suggests J's answer is (quote) "perhaps" correct and Postdog's is (quote) "possibly" correct. The scholars of The Oxford English Dictionary, on the other hand, are more circumspect, claiming the origin is (quote) "unknown".
If you click here you will find that the noted etymologist and lexicographer Michael Quinion suspects, as I do, that these suggestions are just examples of folk etymology.
"We know what it means, but we don't know where it came from" would seem to be the answer.
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