Willie

"That's very nice of you," Willie answered.

After a hearty dinner, Willie thanked the host.

Willie accidentally let off his father's shotgun and made a hole in the wall.

"Hey, Willie," the farmer shouted out.

"Well, OK," Willie finally agreed.

The song Dark Was the Night by Blind Willie Johnson is one of the sound samples included on the Voyager space probe's Golden Records.

What ever happened to the kid who played Charlie Bucket in the original Willie Wonka movie?

Well agreed, Willie; then sit thee down, swain; Such a song never heardest thou but Colin sing.

Not one of his old friends but had been taken to task, in Willie's familiar note of boyish plaintiveness: "Why don't you call me by my own name? I never did like 'Willie' - 'William' isn't so bad. But the other sounds like pinafores and bed sheets."

But the professor's voice had risen slightly in a question as he read "Jimmy Willie Hall" off the class card. The professor had intended no rudeness and he made this clear by nodding in acknowledgement to Jim's "Heah", but someone in the back of the room had sniggered and this churlishness to a stranger had embarrassed Ellen, embarrassed all the more because she, too, had smiled at the ludicrous sound.