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Theodoric
08-11-2003, 19:19
I first came across the word 'crimbo' a fair number of years ago. So, would any care to give a brief etymology of it.
Russ
08-11-2003, 19:20
It's a shorter, lazy version of 'Christmas'.

End of thread?? :D
Theodoric
08-11-2003, 19:25
It's a shorter, lazy version of 'Christmas'.

End of thread?? :D
By no means! How do you manage to convert Christmas into crimbo?

And how do you manage to conevert Terry into Tel and what is Del derived from?
Russ
08-11-2003, 19:29
It's because people prefer abbreviated words to end in a harder, percussive manner. The name Tel 'stops' better than the correct shorter version of "Ter".

The ending of "Chris" isn't as percusive as some people would like so a 'harder' end to it was added :)

And Del...here's a clue: Derrick Trotter gets called it ;)
Ramrod
08-11-2003, 20:25
I can't understand how 'Robert' becomes 'Bob'
homealone
08-11-2003, 21:47
I can't understand how 'Robert' becomes 'Bob'

- or how 'Bob' is always really a female, disguised as the cabin boy?:D

- "crimbo" is horrible, in my opinion :shrug:
Chris
09-11-2003, 00:15
I can't understand how 'Robert' becomes 'Bob'

In our house, Robert becomes Bobster ... but that's 'cos it's cuter, like him :)

http://homepage.mac.com/towny/bobster.jpg