Country Diary
Dec 08, 2021
3 minutes
Richard Negus
The nickname is one of the many quirks peculiar to East Anglian life. I’m not talking about the dull creations that suffice in football. Suffixing the letter ‘y’ or an ‘o’ to a surname may be all well and good for Keano, Crouchy and the rest, but here in the east, a nickname is a thing of intense and often profoundly cryptic thought.
The nickname here is of such import that the moniker is
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