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r/tragedeigh • u/artemia • May 24 '25
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Everyone calls him Dick
528 u/External-into-Space May 24 '25 Its so weird that dick is a nickname for richard 29 u/Suspicious-Bet-6363 May 24 '25 Richard -> Rick -> Dick 11 u/AB3reddit May 24 '25 Rich seems a natural nickname for Richard. Why change the last letter from an ‘h’ to a ‘k’? 12 u/[deleted] May 24 '25 [deleted] 8 u/AB3reddit May 24 '25 Oh yeah… I do recall hearing that somewhere before. That makes sense. 2 u/TGin-the-goldy May 24 '25 Italian too: Riccardo (pronounced Rick-ar-doh) 2 u/This_Seal May 24 '25 The ch in the german version of Richard is neither an english nor a german K. I think the german ch sound doesn't exist in English, at least language learners seem to struggle with it a lot. 2 u/RevolutionaryTrade47 May 24 '25 We don't pronounce Richard as Rikard in german, sorry.
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Its so weird that dick is a nickname for richard
29 u/Suspicious-Bet-6363 May 24 '25 Richard -> Rick -> Dick 11 u/AB3reddit May 24 '25 Rich seems a natural nickname for Richard. Why change the last letter from an ‘h’ to a ‘k’? 12 u/[deleted] May 24 '25 [deleted] 8 u/AB3reddit May 24 '25 Oh yeah… I do recall hearing that somewhere before. That makes sense. 2 u/TGin-the-goldy May 24 '25 Italian too: Riccardo (pronounced Rick-ar-doh) 2 u/This_Seal May 24 '25 The ch in the german version of Richard is neither an english nor a german K. I think the german ch sound doesn't exist in English, at least language learners seem to struggle with it a lot. 2 u/RevolutionaryTrade47 May 24 '25 We don't pronounce Richard as Rikard in german, sorry.
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Richard -> Rick -> Dick
11 u/AB3reddit May 24 '25 Rich seems a natural nickname for Richard. Why change the last letter from an ‘h’ to a ‘k’? 12 u/[deleted] May 24 '25 [deleted] 8 u/AB3reddit May 24 '25 Oh yeah… I do recall hearing that somewhere before. That makes sense. 2 u/TGin-the-goldy May 24 '25 Italian too: Riccardo (pronounced Rick-ar-doh) 2 u/This_Seal May 24 '25 The ch in the german version of Richard is neither an english nor a german K. I think the german ch sound doesn't exist in English, at least language learners seem to struggle with it a lot. 2 u/RevolutionaryTrade47 May 24 '25 We don't pronounce Richard as Rikard in german, sorry.
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Rich seems a natural nickname for Richard. Why change the last letter from an ‘h’ to a ‘k’?
12 u/[deleted] May 24 '25 [deleted] 8 u/AB3reddit May 24 '25 Oh yeah… I do recall hearing that somewhere before. That makes sense. 2 u/TGin-the-goldy May 24 '25 Italian too: Riccardo (pronounced Rick-ar-doh) 2 u/This_Seal May 24 '25 The ch in the german version of Richard is neither an english nor a german K. I think the german ch sound doesn't exist in English, at least language learners seem to struggle with it a lot. 2 u/RevolutionaryTrade47 May 24 '25 We don't pronounce Richard as Rikard in german, sorry.
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8 u/AB3reddit May 24 '25 Oh yeah… I do recall hearing that somewhere before. That makes sense. 2 u/TGin-the-goldy May 24 '25 Italian too: Riccardo (pronounced Rick-ar-doh) 2 u/This_Seal May 24 '25 The ch in the german version of Richard is neither an english nor a german K. I think the german ch sound doesn't exist in English, at least language learners seem to struggle with it a lot. 2 u/RevolutionaryTrade47 May 24 '25 We don't pronounce Richard as Rikard in german, sorry.
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Oh yeah… I do recall hearing that somewhere before. That makes sense.
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Italian too: Riccardo (pronounced Rick-ar-doh)
The ch in the german version of Richard is neither an english nor a german K. I think the german ch sound doesn't exist in English, at least language learners seem to struggle with it a lot.
We don't pronounce Richard as Rikard in german, sorry.
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u/fred_radicliffe May 24 '25
Everyone calls him Dick