[LMB] OT: a question for the many Jameses on the list

[Mark Allums]

Peter H. Granzeau wrote:
> At 01:26 PM 7/8/2007, Susan Fox wrote:
>> My ex is called "Jimbo" by his elder relatives.  Anyone else who calls him
>> that is in Big Trouble.  <G>
>>
>> In the UK, "Jack" is a nickname for "James", through the root name "Jacob".
>> My Brooklynite father is a Jacob who is almost universally called Jack, but
>> a newspaper in Hong Kong once saw his use-name and "formalized" it to James
>> for a by-line on a story he syndicated there once.  He chose to be amused.
> 
> Us 'Murricans has forgotten completely the relationship between 
> "James" and "Jacob".  "Jack" would have been born John (unless, like 
> my grandson, his name really IS Jack), "Jim" would have been born 
> James, and "Jake" would have been born Jacob.

There exist a Jason or two that go by "Jake".

--Mark Allums