My mother also picked my name so it could not be foreshortened. Only to have my grandmother say "You could call her Ricki." Which I'm glad she didn't. Today sucks...total sucktastic Monday.
Mal: Well said. Wasn't that well said, Zoe? Zoe: Had a kind poetry to it, sir.
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erikaj - Apr 03, 2006 9:20:56 am PDT #7037 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Topic!Cindy - Apr 03, 2006 9:22:24 am PDT #7038 of 10001
What is even happening?
Same here with Juli. My blood family may use it. Z used it, but now may not. Anyone else? Nuh and uh.We can still call you Incredibly--and we mean strikingly so--beautiful one, right?
Volans - Apr 03, 2006 9:22:46 am PDT #7039 of 10001
move out and draw fire
My oldest and closest friend has pronunciation difficulties with her middle name, but it's just going to happen. It's Kali, but pronounced Kylie. Her parents were trying to synthesize some late-60s hippiness and their Irish heritage.
Trudy Booth - Apr 03, 2006 9:23:13 am PDT #7040 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Yeah, my parents tried that. It worked until I started at the English-speaking school, where Rachel was immediately shortened to Roach.
Hee. The closest we ever came to violating the edict was my sister Rachel being briefly called "Rache," but Mom shot that down as sounding too much like "Roach".
We had various non-name-related nicknames, but that wasn't a problem to the 'rents.
Jessica - Apr 03, 2006 9:23:40 am PDT #7041 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
There are no non-nickable names. If it's got more than one syllable, you can drop at least one. If it's only got one syllable, more can be added. I think the best a parent can hope for is that their kids will like their names as adults, and find a variation they can insist on other people using.
Trudy Booth - Apr 03, 2006 9:24:44 am PDT #7042 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
There are two syllables in your name. It's nickable. (And, randomly, a differently-spelled version of a name I tried to go by when I was 14 and sick of people mucking up my real name.)
Well, Leah, Sarah, and Rachel aren't as regularly nicked as, say, Susan, Stephen, James... they don't much have a built-in diminutive. That was the objection, they wanted the name they gave us used not a substitute name.
§ ita § - Apr 03, 2006 9:25:25 am PDT #7043 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
There are two syllables in your name. It's nickable.
You don't even need two. As long as there's a syllable, it's nickable. Duplicate the sound. Add a diminutive suffix. Change the vowel...there's so much to be done.
eta:
Leah, Sarah, and Rachel aren't as regularly nicked as, say, Susan, Stephen, James
In my experience, Rachel is just as ripe. It just depends on the enforcing body.
Steph L. - Apr 03, 2006 9:25:53 am PDT #7044 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
You pronounce it thus:
Nickle. Uh.
Really? I would have pronounced it "nih-COLE-uh."
It's better all around if I call you Nic. Or Fay.
Trudy Booth - Apr 03, 2006 9:27:10 am PDT #7045 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Really? I would have pronounced it "nih-COLE-uh."
And then we could have guys with Alp horns!
brenda m - Apr 03, 2006 9:27:54 am PDT #7046 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
And then we could have guys with Alp horns!
See, I was thinking the same thing about the pronunciation Fay gave us.