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Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by ouchjars on Monday February 10, 2025 @03:40PM (#43004867)
-o is most characteristic of Australian English but English speakers over the world are familiar with "kiddo", "psycho", and now "doggo".
Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by mjd on Monday February 10, 2025 @04:17PM (#43005267)
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 (#43008760)
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).
Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more by wink on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @03:44AM (#43010463)
not sure psycho counts, as it works in every language that uses the greek? latin? base.

Also I kinda liked learning about smoko, even as a non-smoker.