eggcorn?: mamby-pamby (1823)

[Jim Parish]

Clai Rice is puzzled by:
> C. S. Lewis (who signs his letters "Jack"?):

Lewis, as a child, disliked his given name; one day, at I'm not sure what age,
he walked up to his parents and, pointing at himself with his thumb,
announced, "He is Jacksie." He never thereafter answered to any name but
Jacksie/Jacks/Jack.

Jim Parish
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