A fairly mundane piece on the BBC website in which people explain their various nicknames through the years - great. However, number 20 is quite a funny one, in a double take, melancolic comedy, sort of way, and runs as follows:
20. As a kid, my older friends called me Beverage. it came about as a transmutation of Steve-a-rino which became Bever-ino which became Beve then Bev and finally Beverage. I still hate all of these nicknames, especially Steve-a-rino.
Steve Ayres, Seattle, Washington, USA
Which demands the question - why are you telling the world about them then?
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Actually it demands the question – begging the question is a different thing entirely (although this is probably yet another picky sub's lost cause).
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4388343/Apostrophes-abolished-by-council.html
Like those pesky apostrophes.
Noted and amended though.
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