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Just some idle curiosity because I think about Lord Alfred Douglas a little more than is normal...does anyone know where he got his nickname? Are Bosie and Alfred related, or is it a unique thing related to him personally? And if it's really a nickname for Alfred...how?
Thanks in advance to anyone who knows.
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"I knew I should create a sensation," gasped the Rocket, and he went out.
Thanks in advance to anyone who knows.
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"I knew I should create a sensation," gasped the Rocket, and he went out.
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Here is the explanation given in Douglas Murray's biography of Alfred Douglas. As you can see, the nickname has nothing to do with "Alfred".
It was in these early years that Alfred acquired the nickname by which his family and friends always called him. His mother liked to call him by the West Country diminutive `Boysie', meaning simply `little boy', which gradually shortened to `Bosie'. It was used all his life, and is curiously apt for, in so many ways, he remained at heart a little boy until his death.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/murray-bosie.html
It was in these early years that Alfred acquired the nickname by which his family and friends always called him. His mother liked to call him by the West Country diminutive `Boysie', meaning simply `little boy', which gradually shortened to `Bosie'. It was used all his life, and is curiously apt for, in so many ways, he remained at heart a little boy until his death.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/m/murray-bosie.html
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Thank you!
That...yeah, that seems incredibly apt. Hah.
That...yeah, that seems incredibly apt. Hah.
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