No one seems to know when nicknames first appeared in history, but using nicknames is very, very old. Nicknames can be slippery, cleverly disguised, sticky, or explosive. Do you already have a nickname?
Award-winning writer Phil Scott has been published in such magazines as Air & Space/Smithsonian, Scientific American, Boating and Popular Science. Scott is also the author of seven nonfiction books: Hemingway's Hurricane, The Shoulders of Giants, The Pioneers of Flight, 21st Century Soldier, The Wrong Stuff, Deadly, and Then and Now. He lives in Manhattan.