Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
by ouchjars on Monday February 10, 2025 @03:40PM
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-o is most characteristic of Australian English but English speakers over the world are familiar with "kiddo", "psycho", and now "doggo".
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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
by mjd on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:17PM
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My own kiddo, at the age of two or three, decided that -o was a productive suffix and started calling me and her mother "Daddo" and "Mommo".
Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
by o11c on Monday February 10, 2025 @10:54PM
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I don't think that's actually a diminutive (meaning shifts to add smallness or endearment), just a colloquializer (meaning doesn't change, just becomes less formal; dialects may adopt a particular informal word as standard).