That's it Garry, for some odd reason, Aussies have this built-in nickname system, usually for names ending in 'y', uzing 'Z's. So Garry becomes Gazza, Terry becomes Tezza, Derek becomes Dezza, Larry becomes Lazza ... you can also drop the last 'a' off, so Gazz, Tezz, Lazz ... they could never do much with 'Kirk', but I have a friend called Doug who calls me Kirkles, so I have to call him Dougles.
Dave becomes Davo; John Johnno ... so you can see that sometimes the nicknames are longer than the real names!
They're a weird mob, these Aussies. They love their nicknames.
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