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Re: Peggy and Margaret
by Barb (guest)
1/15/2003, 9:16 PM
in reply to a message by Lennart
The missing link is Meg, at one time a common pet form of Margaret. (Margaret > Marg > Meg > Peg > Peggy)
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- Donald (guest)
1/21/2003, 10:59 PM
From another similar site: What started out as MEGAN, a Welsh pet form of Margaret, has mutated into all sorts of faux-Irish spellings and pronunciations. To translate Megan et. al. into Irish, you could either use Mairéad (mahr ADE), the long Irish form of Margaret, or Peig (PEG), the short form.I have also seen Margaret defined as meaning 'Pearl' with Meg and Peg as Greek and Celtic translations for the same.
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- Yahalome (guest)   +2
1/16/2003, 10:14 PM
There must've been a young sibling between Meg and Peg!
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- Anneza (guest)   +1
1/17/2003, 12:08 AM
Neg to you too! (Or should it be Oeg??)It's always been my nightmare that somewhere in the world there may be four boys in one family, called Barry, Garry, Harry and Larry. And I suppose the girls would be Arleen, Charleen, Darleen and Marleen.
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- barb (guest)
1/17/2003, 7:45 PM
At least the practice of inflicting rhyming names on twins has pretty well passed. I did once know twin Barry and Larry's...it was confusing to say the least!
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