The most common one is "Dru."
Cordelia: I get it now. You're all spies. Probably all Russian. And you've brainwashed me, and want me to believe we're friends so I'll spill the beans about some nano-technology thingy that you want. Gunn: So I look Russian to you? Cordelia: Black Russian. Angel: That's a drink.
'Hell Bound'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
NoiseDesign - Sep 17, 2007 11:52:34 am PDT #1151 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
NoiseDesign - Sep 17, 2007 11:53:24 am PDT #1152 of 10001
Our wings are not tired
Aimee, tell Joe he might want to pack some work gloves if he has a pair.
erikaj - Sep 17, 2007 11:54:27 am PDT #1153 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
People generally write "Erica" which, no big. Except I just wrote the "k" myself. Do you not think I can spell my own name?
Aims - Sep 17, 2007 11:55:11 am PDT #1154 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Aimee, tell Joe he might want to pack some work gloves if he has a pair.
He already packed them! Smart boy!
sarameg - Sep 17, 2007 11:56:46 am PDT #1155 of 10001
I've been here since 8:15. I think it is time to go home.
There'd better be hot water.
§ ita § - Sep 17, 2007 11:57:33 am PDT #1156 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I got asked if my name was "Ha" last week. That doesn't happen as often as it used to--primarily because most of the time it's handwritten it's by me and lower-case and the "I" and the "t" aren't behaving all inappropriately towards each other. Most of the times when I'm asked my name by people who are going to handwrite I just give them my last name. Can't do that in the ER.
Susan W. - Sep 17, 2007 11:59:01 am PDT #1157 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I think now, after 8 years of marriage, all of the relatives I'm in regular contact with have finally worked it out that my husband's name isn't Dillon and that our last name only has one L. Did they think we were spelling it wrong on our own wedding invitations and Christmas cards?
ETA and Annabel is already Annabelle, Annabell, Anabelle, etc. Not that this is a surprise to us--we knew we were violating our "only one standard spelling" rule when we chose her name.
JZ - Sep 17, 2007 12:11:30 pm PDT #1158 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm just not Jackie, and I don't want to be. Really, that is all I ask. And even that is too much for about half the people I meet.
Also, Hec is not Dave, and Matilda is too young to state any preferences one way or another but I myself have a screaming aversion to Mattie. If that's the nick she settles on I'm going to have to work shamefully hard on being Zen about it.
aurelia - Sep 17, 2007 12:11:38 pm PDT #1159 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
I had a phone bill addressed to "Giona" for a year. Most other misspellings happen because people start with a "J" and get confused.
megan walker - Sep 17, 2007 12:13:07 pm PDT #1160 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
My best friend from high school, who also dated my brother throughout high school, still writes my sister's name without the final "e", despite all my correspondance to the contrary. Of course, given how my name gets butchered, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.
Erika? Amy? Kristen? I get. But, Dru?