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I don't usually post a link to my columns on here, but I'm doing it today in preparation for asking a question:
http://www.omaha.com/article/20130625/LIVING/706259966/1696
As you can see from the article, after doing several days of searching the earliest example I have come up with of "Chuck" being used as a pet form for "Charles" is in an obituary from 1913 (of a man whose actual birth name was George!) This is the sort of thing that's hard to track down, though, so I was wondering if any one who frequents this board knows of an earlier example linking the two.
A man born before 1913 being called Chuck later in life is not what I'm looking for--I'm looking for actual evidence of Chuck being used as a nickname for a Charles before 1913.
Thanks!
http://www.omaha.com/article/20130625/LIVING/706259966/1696
As you can see from the article, after doing several days of searching the earliest example I have come up with of "Chuck" being used as a pet form for "Charles" is in an obituary from 1913 (of a man whose actual birth name was George!) This is the sort of thing that's hard to track down, though, so I was wondering if any one who frequents this board knows of an earlier example linking the two.
A man born before 1913 being called Chuck later in life is not what I'm looking for--I'm looking for actual evidence of Chuck being used as a nickname for a Charles before 1913.
Thanks!
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