Many years ago, when working as a Work Study Man. I had to study the job being performed by a young man of about 19 or 20. When I asked his name, and he told me it was Richard, I asked him if he preferred to be call Richard or Dick. In a sombre voice he told me that he insisted on being called Richard, for as he was of such small stature, most of his friends, both male and female referred to him as Little Richard. "Besides" he went on, "my surname happens to be Littlehampton".