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I'm reading the Alvin Maker series, and I was wondering about Peggy's name. How do you go from Margret to Peggy? No one in my family knows, and I can't figure it out. Anyone know?
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Babynames.com lists "Margaret" as Latin, meaning "A pearl", and Peggy as being Celtic/Gaelic. It may be some sort of linguistic transition between languages, or a misheard consonant.
Addition: "Peigi" is apparently Celtic for "pearl". So the Latin is Margaret, the Celtic is Peigi, or Peggy... And one becomes synonymous with the other.
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I don't get it, either. People make strange jumps between given names and nicknames, though. For example, my first name is Melissa, but I go by my middle name. Everybody I meet just assumes that Libbie is a short form of Melissa that they've just never heard before until I show them my driver's license.
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The Libby I know is short for Elizabeth, which seems pretty straightforward. I'm not sure how you'd get Libbie from Melissa, but I suppose stranger things have happened.
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