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Shep Edmonds
Shep is most commonly a nickname or hypocorism, short for Shepherd (name), Shepherd, Shephard or Shepard. It may refer to: People Given name *Shep Gordon (born 1945), American talent manager, Hollywood film agent and producer *Shep Messing (born 1949), American Olympic soccer goalkeeper and current broadcaster Nickname *Shep Goodman, 21st century American music producer and songwriter *Shep Mayer (1923–2005), Canadian ice hockey player *Shep Meyers (1936–2009), American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor *Shep Pettibone (born 1959), American music producer, remixer, songwriter and club DJ *Shepard Smith (born 1964), American former broadcast journalist *David Shepherd (umpire) (1940–2009), English cricketer and cricket umpire *Jean Shepherd (1921–1999), American raconteur, radio and TV personality, writer and actor Stage name *Shep Fields, American band leader born Saul Feldman (1910–1981) *James Sheppard (1935–1970), lead singer of the Heartbeats and later She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypocorism
A hypocorism ( or ; from Ancient Greek ; sometimes also ''hypocoristic''), or pet name, is a name used to show affection for a person. It may be a diminutive form of a person's name, such as ''Izzy'' for Isabel or ''Bob (given name), Bob'' for Robert, or it may be unrelated. Origins and usage Etymologically, the term ''hypocorism'' is from Ancient Greek (), from (), meaning 'to call by endearing names'. The prefix refers in this case to creating a diminutive, something that is smaller in a tender or affectionate sense; the root originates in the Greek for 'to caress' or 'to treat with tokens of affection', and is related to the words () 'boy, youth' and () 'girl, young woman'. In linguistics, the term can be used more specifically to refer to the Morphology (linguistics), morphological process by which the standard form of the word is transformed into a form denoting affection, or to words resulting from this process. In English, a word is often clipping (morphology), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |