What made Czar Nicholas II a weak ruler? I have a couple more questions if you could answer them that would be great. What were some characteristics of Czar Nicholas? Why was Nicholas II overthrown? Was he the cause of the Russian Revolution?
Spratt derives either from the Old English sprit meaning a  slender person or from esprit meaning an elf. Like many Anglo-Saxon names it originated as a nickname before becoming a surname in the modern sense. The earliest records of the name come from the English counties of Dorset, Somerset and Essex.
Not only does the root spect mean âsee,â but its variant spic does as well. Imagine someone in a large crowd is wearing stilts and a three-foot tall yellow hatânow that would be con spic uous, or easy to âsee.â A de spic able person, or one who does things that shouldnât be âseen,â might shoot an arrow through that hat.