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[pegkerr]

Results for "Peg Kerr"

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 0 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Not really, though: I have run across one other "Peg Kerr" out there when I've done Google searches. She is an R.N. And I think I posted awhile ago about running across references to another one, doing a road trip in the 1920s or 1930s. And if you run the results with my actual first name ("Margaret"), this is what you get:

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 184 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

However, if you call me "Margaret," I shall know you're a telemarketer.

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[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

I have a book called Just Plain Maggie about a girl in her first year at summer camp - I think it was written in 53? There's an exchange with her new bunkmates about names - she explains that her full name is Margaret and one of the girls notes that if they don't like calling her Maggie they could just call her Peggy.

It's curious how nicknames get generated - why are you Peg and not Maggie? I can't imagine you being anythingbut Peg, but of course I've been a fangirl longer than I've known you.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

The name "Peg" traditionally is derived from Margaret thusly: Margaret becomes Maggie becomes Meg becomes Peg. (In the same way that Mary becomes Molly becomes Polly). I was christened "Margaret" but I was called "Peggy" immediately, all through the time I was growing up. I was actually named for a beloved relative of my mother's, an Aunt Peggy (she helped my mother pick out her wedding dress).

When I graduated from college, I took my first job in an office that had another Peggy, and I started calling myself "Peg" to help people distinguish between the two of us. I eventually decided I preferred "Peg"--it seemed more grown up to me. My parents still call me Peggy, but that's fine. I know I'll always be their little girl.

Amusingly, I didn't even know how to spell "Margaret" properly until I was in eighth grade, since I'd never used it. I filled it out wrong on a school form once ("Margret" I think I spelled it) and my teacher corrected me.

[huladavid.livejournal.com]

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 4 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Out of curiosity I'll occasionally check the phone book for other "Cummer"s, but have never found one, unless it's a relative. There are more "Kummer"s, though, but I don't think there's a connection between the two names (the "original" spelling of my last name is "Kumer" or "Kumre".

Related story: A few days ago I was talking to Annie at Bristol. She mentioned that when the paper work for my living at Bristol was being worked on, everyone was sympathetically horrified at my last name...

[peacockharpy.livejournal.com]

I love the name Margaret. Of course, we stopped at the Meg and didn't go on to Peg.

We have to explain to EVERYONE that Meg is short for Margaret and not Megan or any of its variants. But it could be worse: my Aunt Polly's given name is Bertha, and I still haven't figured out how they got from A to B on that one.

[silme.livejournal.com]

There are six people with my name in the US, and I'm in the UK. ;)

However, according to this site, there isn't a single person in the US with my sister's surname (she took her husband's name). She doesn't exist, nor does her husband, their two children, their daughter-in-law who took that name, etc. Wow.

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

One of the minor incidental cool things about having a PhD is that being "Dr. myrealname" for all formal and official purposes means that any caller using any salutation other than that is immediately identifiable as a telemarketer.

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

There are 0 Kij's. Imagine my surprise.