My father's family name being pirrip, and my christian name philip, my infant tongue could
make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than pip. so, i called myself pip, and came
to be called pip.
philip pirrip, the narrator, is known as "pip" because
question 2 options:
"pip" was how he pronounced his first and last names as a young child
all orphaned children in his time were known as "pips"
his parents gave him the nickname just moments before they died
"pip" was the noise that he would make when crying alone in the churchyard cemetery