Yags and Becks

[Roger Wright]

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The Manchester United footballer David Beckham is widely referred to as
"Becks"; at least, he is by journalists (maybe that qualifies as "baby
talk", though)  -  RW


On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Paul Hopper wrote:

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>The "hypocoristic" -s is (or was) widely in junior schools and families in
>the UK. It is however not restricted to names, but is found in baby-talk
>generally. See:
>