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bec197. | 15:45 Tue 03rd Feb 2004 | People & Places
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Anyone know why the name Margaret is sometimes shortened to Peggy...makes no sense to me.....???
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Margaret was abbreviated to Maggie and that changed to Meggie. The Peggy version was just a rhyming version of that. William became Bill in much the same way and so did Richard become what it has become!
Makes more sense than Daisy, which is another variant.

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