Seeing Chip Carter's beautiful eulogy is reminding me of a fancy-people thing that I never learned until well into adulthood.

Chip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad. Skip is a nickname for a guy named after his grandfather. Trip is a nickname for a guy named after his dad AND grandfather.

— Angus Johnston (@angus.bsky.social) 2025-01-09T17:33:45.759Z

In case you didn’t figure it out already, the nicknames come from “chip off the old block,” “skipped generation,” and “the third,” respectively. I had no idea.