Talk:Pratt

It seems odd to me that this page starts with a discussion of a homonym that may or may not relate to the surname itself. Is there anything tying 'prat' to 'Pratt', other than the fact they sound the same? ActuarialFellow 16:18, 14 August 2006 (UTC) jl —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.112.194.62 (talk) 16:13, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

Some etymology could be of interest--

English: nickname for a clever trickster, from Old English prætt ‘trick’, ‘tricky’, ‘cunning’ (which is found in use as a byname in the 11th century). This surname is quite common in southeastern Ireland. In Old English, æ denotes a sound intermediate between a and e ([æ]), a sound very much like the short a of cat in many dialects of modern English.