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.
Gwen: Demon, OK? The whole nine—cloven feet and horns and teeth. He wasn't wearing lamé though. Lorne: Yeah, the evil ones can't pull it off. It gets camp.
'Harm's Way'
Spike's Bitches 29: That sure as hell wasn't in the brochure.
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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
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.
juliana - Apr 03, 2006 9:28:04 am PDT #7047 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Cindy - but course, O Foamalicious One!
SuziQ - Apr 03, 2006 9:28:24 am PDT #7048 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
My stomach is in knots. Grrrrrrrr.
Betsy HP - Apr 03, 2006 9:30:23 am PDT #7049 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
Daylight savings time has eaten my brain.
Lee - Apr 03, 2006 9:32:21 am PDT #7050 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
I don't like today. I want to give it back and get a new one.