Philip Hancock Short was born on 9 October 1970, in Rowan, North Carolina, United States. He died on 16 September 1980, in Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States, at the age of 9, and was buried in Davie, North Carolina, United States.
English: nickname for a short person, from Middle English short ‘short’ (Old English sceort).
English: topographic name for someone who lived at a detached or cut-off piece of land (Middle English shorte, shirte, from Old English scierte, scerte, scyrte) or else a habitational name from a place so named, such as Shoart in Harbeldown (Kent) and Shuart in Saint Nicholas at Wade (Kent). Compare Shorter .
Irish and Scottish: adopted for Gaelic Mac an Gheairr, Mac an Ghirr ‘son of the short man’ (see McGirr ).
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