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Hello and welcome to the short stuff.

I'm Josh.

There's Chuck.

There's Josh.

And this is short stuff, like I said.

Your nickname is Josh.

Which is short for Joshua.

That makes sense.

It does almost boringly so.

Your nickname is Chuck, which is short for Chuck.

Now it's short for Charles.

Yeah, that's what kind of got me onto this.

I realized I sort of never knew how Chuck came from Charles and there are a lot of examples

of names that we're going to go through right now that don't quite make sense and there

are some interesting and murky stories behind a lot of these.

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