Examples of how to eliminate nicknames and restore words to their proper form:

• Just don’t call me by my nicholas-name; I hate it!

• From our jungle camp-site we could hear the distant beating of a thomas-thomas.

• I don’t know what that means; I’ll have to look it up in the richardtionary.

• If I could find the right lawyer, I’d susan him for all he’s worth.

• You won’t find me jason-walking in that town; they fine you for the most ridiculous infractions.

• I told him he could william me for the balance.

• Preparing for a night on the town, I took my cane, donalded my fedora, and went out.

• You can see how he managed that scheme; just connect the dorothies.

• I’ll be franklin with you: you’ve made a mess of it.

• I gave the stephenadore my trunk to carry on board.

• It was last janetuary when I first met him.

• Last year the four of us took a trek into the High Andrews.

• It was the middle of a summer’s day, and you could hear the catherinedids trilling in the trees.

• A penelope for your thoughts, my dear.

• Don’t fight it, my friend; just go with the florence.

• Well, arthur for arthur’s sake, I always say.

• This Halloween we’re going to go to the party next door and robert for apples.

• I don’t find his argument very convincenting.

• Arrgh! Last night I got a charles-horse on the basketball court.

• Harvard is the best edwarducation that money can buy.

• They say that lemmings commit suicide by running off the cliffords and falling into the sea.

• That’s a valeriuable necklace you’re wearing.

• I love the San Francisco trolivers.

• Thanks for inviting us to your new daughter’s christopherning.

• You know what they say, leslie is more.

• Winifred-the-Pooh was my favorite childhood book; it’s a shame what Disney did to it.

• Wasn’t it Abraham Lincoln who elizabetherated the slaves?

• Let’s sit here and relax; the children can go play on the jungle-james.

• He’s really got a beatrice in his bonnet over what they’re charging these days.