[HPFGU-OTChatter] Nicknames/abbreviations (was Re: Unfortunate Events...)

[Sheryll Townsend]

--- sofie_elisabeth <sofie_elisabeth at yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> 
> On a similar topic those of you who have children,
> do your kids get 
> abbreviations of their names that are not all that
> similar to their 
> names? It's just that while Alex (older brother aged
> 23) and Joseph 
> get Al and Joe, myself and Andrew get Fie and Ady!
> It's to do with 
> the fact that aged twenty-one months Joe couldn't
> say Andrew so he 
> called him Ady. Fie is because that's what Alex
> called me I was born 
> (he was six but couldn't say S very well). So any
> intresting 
> abbreviations/nicknames among you doting mums and
> dads?
> 
> Sofie (who surprisingly still wants to have children
> despite living 
> with two small (adorable) fiends!)
> 
When my daughter was young, everyone thought her name
was short for something else (her name is Nyssa).
People would always ask if it was Vanessa, Melissa and
such. She learned very early on to reply to the
"What's your name?" with the response "Nyssa,
N-Y-S-S-A." She's now in Grade 13 and still has to
deal with people who can't seem to pronounce the name,
but that's a different issue.

Now, my brother-in-law's name is Malcolm but I don't
know anyone who calls him that, not even his parents.
He was dubbed "Beano" when he was very young by a
sister who couldn't say 'brother' (I know, it makes no
sense to me, either). Growing up in a very small town,
everyone picked up on the nickname. Even teachers
called him Beano and all his co-workers now do so. He
was once stopped by the police who, after asking for
his driver's license, said to him "You're Malcolm
...?". He said no, until his younger sister piped up
from the backseat, "Yes you are, Beano, yes you are." 

Sheryll, who never had a nickname until she became an
HPfGU List Elf

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