Years ago a friend decided to give everyone "American" nicknames. We had Chuck, Hank, Clint. Mine (Alvin) was the only one that stuck. There is a movie called Guest House Paradiso starring Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson . Mayall plays a character called Richard Twat but he insists it's pronounced Thwait (twat being a vulgar British word for vagina and an Insult). My dry sense of humour paired the 2.