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HelpRe: Ace, Spike, Thorn
in reply to a message by Felie
I'm familiar with Spike as a rhyming nickname (with Mike) for Michael; I don't currently know one but I might have once.
Thorn is awful, but in Afrikaans the word for a thorn is used as a term of praise: Jou doring! Like: You're a star! In theory it could be used as a nn, but I've never heard it like that.
Ace ... also in Afrikaans, and Dutch, there is a surname - Uys - which sounds so close to Ace that English-speaking people can cope with it. And a very prominent playwright, satirical comedian, drag act, named Pieter-Dirk Uys went to the UK as a young man (60s probably) and found that he pretty much had to introduce himself as Ace rather than spend time trying to teach people to do something they really weren't going to get right anyway. When he came home, he dropped it. And that's my only association.
Thorn is awful, but in Afrikaans the word for a thorn is used as a term of praise: Jou doring! Like: You're a star! In theory it could be used as a nn, but I've never heard it like that.
Ace ... also in Afrikaans, and Dutch, there is a surname - Uys - which sounds so close to Ace that English-speaking people can cope with it. And a very prominent playwright, satirical comedian, drag act, named Pieter-Dirk Uys went to the UK as a young man (60s probably) and found that he pretty much had to introduce himself as Ace rather than spend time trying to teach people to do something they really weren't going to get right anyway. When he came home, he dropped it. And that's my only association.
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