What Is Your Nickname?

Origin for nicknames. Have you ever wonder why Peggy is a nickname for Margaret and Bill for William? There is an explanation on how the nickname started. I have seen a more detailed site with a deeper explanation, unfortunately I cannot find that site. I still hope to find that site. There was a really good information. But Wikipedia has part of the explanation that I was looking for under "Nicknames for People". The first two links have explanations. The rest are some links that I picked up from the web. Pardon me if there are grammatical mistakes. It's after 2AM and my brain isn't exactly where it should be.

A day after, with the help of a friend, I was able to finally fix this post that I had intended to post yesterday. Yeah! This should be today's post, but it got switched with the post in which I said that I have problems with this post...So these two posts have been switched (I don't know how to fix that, but it's no biggie).
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Here are a few out of many lists.

The White House Presidential Nicknames! (funny)
http://whitehouse.georgewbush.org/kids/nicknames.asp

US List Of Presidential Nicknames
http://knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/List_of_U.S._Presidential_Nicknames

List of baseball nicknames
http://wapedia.mobi/en/List_of_baseball_nicknames

List of U.S. state nicknames
http://www.bambooweb.com/articles/l/i/List_of_U.S._state_nicknames.html

Soccerfile
http://www.soccerphile.com/soccerphile/news/nicknames2.html

Criminal Nicknames
http://www.factacular.com/subjects/Criminal_Nicknames

List of NFL nicknames
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFL_Nicknames

Football Mascots
http://www.footballbabble.com/football/nfl/mascots

Crystal Meth / Methamphetamine
http://www.kci.org/meth_info/slang_names.htm

2005 Award for “Best Celebrity Nickname”
http://www.pr.com/press-release/1923