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Richard Vs. Dick
Does anyone know the etymology of the name Richard and how it ever became Dick.
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bird bump
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DICK: Medieval pet form of RICHARD. The change in the initial consonant is said to have been caused by the way the trilled Norman R was pronounced by the English.
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Who knows what the history did
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that goes in my "useless info" file......
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