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<P>"Chic" Harley (born Charles Wesley Harley) was an all-american in football at the Ohio State University. Interestingly, the entry on him at Wikipedia notes that his nickname comes from the fact that he was born in Chicago. He began his college career in 1916 and was called "chic" at least by that point.</P>
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<DIV></DIV>From: <I>Wilson Gray <hwgray@GMAIL.COM></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>American Dialect Society <ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU></I><BR>To: <I>ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU</I><BR>Subject: <I>Re: "Chick" = nickname for "Charles"</I><BR>Date: <I>Tue, 19 Sep 2006 08:28:28 -0400</I><BR>>---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------<BR>>Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU><BR>>Poster: Wilson Gray <hwgray@GMAIL.COM><BR>>Subject: Re: "Chick" = nickname for "Charles"<BR>>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>><BR>>Murat Bernard "Chic"[sic] Young was the originator of the comic strip,
Blondie.<BR>><BR>>-Wilson<BR>><BR>>On 9/19/06, Paul Johnston <paul.johnston@wmich.edu> wrote:<BR>> > ---------------------- Information from the mail header -----------------------<BR>> > Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU><BR>> > Poster: Paul Johnston <paul.johnston@WMICH.EDU><BR>> > Subject: Re: "Chick" = nickname for "Charles"<BR>> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> ><BR>> > I thought of old time baseball players like Chick Gandil of the<BR>> > "Black Sox" and contemporary Chick Fewster of the 1920 Dodgers.<BR>> > Alas, neither was a Charles. I think, however, the Scottish comedian<BR>> > Chic(k) Murray was,
though, and there's a Glaswegian lower-division<BR>> > footballer (soccer player) named Chic Connolly who is also known as<BR>> > Charlie, so it's still alive over there--and you never hear Chuck there.<BR>> ><BR>> > Paul Johnston<BR>> > On Sep 18, 2006, at 8:14 PM, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:<BR>> ><BR>> > > ---------------------- Information from the mail header<BR>> > > -----------------------<BR>> > > Sender: American Dialect Society <ADS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU><BR>> > > Poster: "Arnold M. Zwicky" <zwicky@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU><BR>> > > Subject: Re: "Chick" = nickname for "Charles"<BR>> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> > >
---------<BR>> > ><BR>> > > On Sep 18, 2006, at 4:49 PM, Jon Lighter wrote:<BR>> > ><BR>> > >> An "early" printed ex. of this (obs.?) U.S. alternative to "Chuck":<BR>> > ><BR>> > > not entirely obsolete. Yale professor Charles Perrow, the author of<BR>> > > the wonderful Normal Accidents, was known as Chick when he was an<BR>> > > undergraduate at Black Rock College, and is sometimes so called<BR>> > > today. the story, as i recall it, was that when he arrived at Black<BR>> > > Rock, there was already a Charles, a Charlie, and a Chuck, and it was<BR>> > > a small place, so he had to be something else, hence Chick.<BR>> > ><BR>> > > arnold<BR>> > ><BR>> > > ------------------------------------------------------------<BR>> >
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