Tommy is the standard nickname for Thomas in Britain too. We throw in an extra h...

		gerdesj 6 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We’ve had a Denisovan skull since the 1930s, only ... Tommy is the standard nickname for Thomas in Britain too. We throw in an extra h in Thomas for no good reason 8) Our soldiers were, politely, referred to as Tommies by German soldiers during WW1 onwards. The Wehrmacht had all sorts of other names for them too!