Why can 'william' be the same as 'bill'?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickname\n\nNicknames for people\nTypes of personal nickname: Also known as pet name, shortened name, truncated name, alternate name, name derivative, associated name, hypocoristic form of a name, diminutized name, or diminuted name. Sometimes related to "alias."\n\n[edit]\nRelating to given names\n1. A nickname may be a hypocoristic form of a person's first name. This is often a simple abbreviation of the name. For most English names the shortened form is taken from the first syllable e.g. Walt for Walter. However in many other languages it is much more common to use the last syllable of the whole name e.g. Italian Nino for Giovanni (via Giovannino, which is a diminutive form of Giovanni). Some abbreviations can use the middle of a word e.g. Liz for Elizabeth. There are a few names for which an archaic pronunciation of the full name is preserved in the short name e.g. Rick for Richard indicates that the -ch- was originally pronounced as -ck-. Some other nicknames were created by rhyming the shortened form of the full name, such as Ted or Ned for Edward (Ed), Bill for William (Will), and Bob or Nob for Robert (Rob). For those abbreviations that do not begin with the same letter as the full name, see list of short name forms.(See link above)
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Some nouns are exceptions when it comes to making them plural. These nouns are called "IRREGULAR PLURALS". When these irregular nouns become plural, their spelling changes in a different way, or "IT MIGHT NOT CHANGE AT ALL". Here are some very tricky irregular nouns.\n    \n\nSingular________Plural  \n\n\nbison___________bison  \n***buffalo______buffalo, buffaloes, buffalos  \ncorps___________corps  \ndeer____________deer  \n***fish_________fish, fishes   \nmoose___________moose                  \nseries__________series  \nsheep___________sheep  \nswine___________swine
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Bill is still number one
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they are the same  thing.\n!
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No. it's fome mad weird sequencing, but if your first term is 34, and your 23rd term is 9 times your 21st, there is no concievable way that 24th could be one, as for w = 9u, both w and u would have to be <1, which implies that x must also be <1. Or maybe this was a joke. Or maybe it just imvolves a really twisted function.
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Perhaps one easy way to help you distinguish and remember: look at the word their or there without the T.  There - T = here (a location)  Their-t = heir (a person).   \n\nThere always refers to a place.  Their always refers to a person or persons.
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Bill=yes\ntrump=some\nstewart=no
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as you said in your question, you would just change it from one to the other, legally of course at the courthouse, \n\nhowever if your looking for a literal translation there is none for english names, those words did not exist in our history.
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I've seen it written as Is.  Also Isle as another poster mentioned.  I don't think it is usual to abreviate it.
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Where two vowels come together as in "I am", one is lost to allow the contracted form "I'm".\nWhen you reverse the order there is no longer a clash of vowels, so there is nothing to contract.
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Its the same with two, too and to.  Drives me insane.  I cant believe people still get this wrong.
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Because there's no guarantee that they will end up at the same place - they refer to different namespaces. Just like adding http:// at the start of an address can lead you to a different place compared to ftp:// ..\n\nconsider that http://talk21.com does not resolve to the same place as http://www.talk21.com
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William Wallet\n\n1562
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who the heck is bill????
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It is because of the invasions!  The Scottish invaded the Brits and they were unfamiliar with the "P" sound.  So they changed it to "M".  Making Polly, from Molly, from Mary. And Peg, from Meg, from Margaret.  Huh?  Does that make sense?\n\nSounds good enough for me.
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Great question!  It makes absolutely no sense!  Please rephrase it!  Using words actually found in English!  Thanks!
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Basically, both of them are the same as my Yahoo Answers ID. I know, I lack originality with names. Prefer using Yahoo IM though.