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.
Get up...get up, you stupid piece of... What did you do that for? What's wrong with you? Didn't you hear a word he said? All of you! You think there's someone just going to drop money on you?! Money they could use?! Well, there ain't people like that. There's just people like me.
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
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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.