Coordinate term: AGI

[…] in a world of mandatory diminutives, a corporation of jolly Bills and Jacks and Herbs and Teds in which an unabbreviable given name like Earl must have been a minor handicap, Oat was the best that could be done for a man with the given name of Otis.

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In the Latin of course the billy goat is caper from which we have the obsolete word capreol, meaning nothing more nor less than a plain billy goat. But if I had spoken of a capreol my untutored enemies would never have understood my drift.