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  1. Sco

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    A Professor of Maths at Sheff Hallam now is Richard Pitt, but he prefers Dick.

    The American ambassador to the UK is Woody Johnson.
     
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    Had a tornado pilot on 43 Sqn called Dick Tuer. He acted like it an’all
     
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    yes. I worked with an A.Dick and he too lived up to his name.
     
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    friend from school had the initials Y. Y. - his nickname was Delilah.

    anyone else with a nickname derived from their 'real' name?
     
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    One of our clients in the 1990's was called Michael Hunt. - (we always referred to him as Mike )
     
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    Frank Talia's wife is called Jenny.

    We had an American consultant come to work with us called Randy Fecke (pronounced Fe Ca)

    I sit near Alfred Uekerman.

    And one of our subsidiaries has a finance guy called Naill ****.
     
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    An old mate of mine is called Kev Hunt, he took great pleasure in signing his name K Hunt
     

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