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Charles (Charlie)
Alexander (Alex)
Christopher (Chris, although I do like and know of a Kit)
Edmund / Edgar / Edward (Don't like Ed or Eddie, prefer Ted / Teddy)
William (Will)
Joseph (Joe and Joey)
Thomas (Tom, although I think most young Thomases don't go by it)
Stephen (Steve)
Theodore (Ted, though I like it on Edward)

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Yes... and the other way too.

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I love Patrick, but hate Pat or Patty.
I love Jacqueline, but don't like Jackie.
I love Alexander, but don't like Alex, Lex, Xander, or any of those other ones.
I love Elizabeth, but hate Lizzie, Beth, Liz, Betsy, Eliza, Bess, Bessy. I only like Elle, Elsa and Ellie. I like Eliza pronounced Eleeza.

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I don't like Margaret, but I love Maggie.
I don't like Theodore, but I love Theo.
I don't like Nicholas enough to use it, but I love Cole and Nico.
I don't really like Alexandria, but would have to use it to have Lexie/ Lexi as a nn.

I also like Edmund and Frederick, but I dislike Ed and Fred. I like Augustine and also Augustus, but not Gus.

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Others:
Nicholas - dislike Nick
Jonathan - dislike Jon
William - dislike Bill
Alexander - dislike Alex
Patrick - dislike Pat
Daniel - dislike Dan
Nathaniel - dislike Nate and Nat
Theodore - I dislike Ted, but I don't hate it. It could grow on me perhaps.
Kenneth - Not too keen on Ken.
Abram - dislike Abe
Albert - dislike Al
Andrew - not too fond of Andy
Bertram - dislike Bert
Emmanuel - dislike Manny

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Elizabeth - dislike Liz and Lizzy
Victoria - dislike Vicky
Kathleen - dislike Kathy
Jacqueline - dislike Jackie
Michelle - dislike Shelly
Gabrielle - dislike Gabby
Veronica - dislike Roni

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Christopher, for starters ...

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I can't stand the nn Chris. In fact, I'm the only member of my family who calls my nephew by his full name. There are others: Gabriel, Cassandra, Alicia, Dominic, Francesca, etc.

Gabriel!

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I'm mad for Gabriel, but I despise Gabe with a fiery passion! Same with Gabrielle/Gabby. I can't think of any others at the moment, but I'm sure there are a few...

Alexandra. I don't like any of the nicknames and don't call her by any of the nicknames and, thus far, she is very proud and determined to go by Alexandra when adults call her otherwise (she accepts Xandra/Andra by younger kids or in rhyming games that require the name to be two syllables otherwise she will set her death stare at you and inform you her name is Alexandra. Sometimes she throws in the both middle names if she's feeling particularly precious).

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Also don't like Belle or Miri for Mirabelle (much to some relatives annoyance).

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Cy for Cyrus (or Cyrus the Virus).

Oy, story of my life. Many of them, I wouldn't use in real life, but I like the names anyways.

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Michael
Matthew
Alexander
David
Joseph
Jacob
Daniel
Patrick

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Elizabeth
Madeline
Caroline
Abigail
Alexandra
Samantha
Alison
Rebecca

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I also have the reverse issue, where I like some nicknames only, but don't care for the full name.

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Charlie
Theo
Ben
Jack

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Mira
Maisie
Annie

Salvatore, any Japanese name with -yuki in it, and Thomas.

I have this problem sometimes.

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I like Jonathan but not John or Johnny.
I like Barnaby but I would never want him to be called Barnie.
I like Benjamin but I don't really like Ben. I prefer Benji or Jamie.
I like James but not Jim or Jimmy, only Jamie or Jem.
I like Madeleine but not Maddy.
I like Valerie but not Val.
I like Vincent but not Vinnie. Vin is okay.

The main one is, I love Nicholas, but hate Nick. I love Cole as a nn for Nicholas.

I love Bartholomew, but I loath Bart.

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I am completely with you on Frederick. Fred is so plain, and synaesthetically, it's such an ugly washed-out scarlet and tastes like bad tomatoes. Friedrich is the same way - I love it but Fritz is just kind of annoying. It's also the name of the dog next door. He's a nice dog, but still. He was the first Fritz I had ever heard of. I don't hate it as much as I used to because of Fritz Kreisler, but it will always sound like an old grey miniature schnauzer to me.

Frank for Francis
Hank for Henry
Winnie for Winifred because it sounds like whinny
Minnie for Willamina, because it sounds like mini ... but more because it reminds me of Minnie Pearl, who I associate with a stupid TV advertisement she did
Lucy for Lucinda because it sounds like loose-y
Di for Diana because it sounds like DIE
Billy for William. A male goat?
Jimmy for James. Jimmy is a verb
Annie, sort of, because it reminds me too much of the musical and its title character
Jazz for Jasmine
Bri for Sabrina, Brianna. Reminds me of bra.
Demi for Demetria. Also reminds me of bras, and coffee cups.

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I have more that go the other way though - I like the nickname tons, but the full name I think is just okay. Like Rick/Richard, Edie/Edith, Nick/Nicholas, Sandra/Alexandra, Charlie/Charles

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Ones where I think the nick is okay but I really dislike the full name:
Abby is nice, but I don't care for A-big-ail
Kim is alright but I don't like Kimberly
Jerry and Harry are fine but I don't like Gerald or Harold very much.

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This message was edited 2/22/2011, 10:03 AM

Lawrence. I don't Larry and Laurie and Lauren are a little to feminine for my area. Oh, and I don't like Ren either. XD /fail

Yes, I generally prefer full names. I don't like any nicknames for Alexandra, for example.

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But I do like Edmund "Ned".

I agree with you on Gregory, it's a nice name but I really don't like Greg.

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Some I can think of are:
I like Rebecca but I don't like Becky or Becca
I like Florence but I don't like Flo or Flossy
I like Eleanor but I don't like Ellie
I like Isobel but I don't like Izzy

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I like Jacob but I don't like Jake

Agreed on Augustus/Augustine, but not because I don't LIKE Gus - I love Gus, it's adorabs, but I know a really weird, creepy, gross Gus, who is my uncle-of-some-sort. So an association I could not escape. I think his name is actually Augustus too, in fact. He doesn't deserve it.

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I'm trying to think of some geniune examples of my own nickname dislike, hmmm. Usually I have the problem of loving a nickname but not a full name.

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Oh, I know. I love Christabel, but Chrissy is not so great - though again, that could be mostly due to association. Agh, this is hard! Most of my nickname hates are due to assocations. Even James nn Jamie - hate Jamie because I only know awful Jamies. Christophe nn Chris - knew an awful Chris. Charlotte nn Charli? Not so fond of that I guess... but how common is Charli as the nickname for Charlotte? I don't know any Charlottes so I don't know.

Lots!

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Samuel - Sam
Nathaniel - Nate
Gabriel - Gabe
Rafael - Rafe
James - Jim
William - Bill
Elizabeth - Liz
Margaret - Maggie
Madeline - Maddie
Magdalena - Magda
Barbara - Barbie, Babs...

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But I'm lucky, since none of those nicknames are used here:-)

their usually just English nicknames like...

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I like Alexander but not Alex
I like Jacob but not Jake
I love Benjamin but not Ben
I love Nicholas but not Nick
I love Thomas but not Tom
I love Joseph but not Joe
I love Gabriel but not Gabe

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I don't mind any of them too much, but I deffinitely prefer the full names or other nicknames for them.

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since most of those are just in English, I wouldn't have that problem if I used them. I love the nicknames for most of my favorite names though(:

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I like

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Antoinette but not Toni
Genevieve but not Genie
Gabrielle/a but not Gabby
Margaret but not Marge or Margie
Montgomery but not Monty
Penelope but not Penny
Veronica but not Ronnie
Victoria but not Vicky
William but not Bill or Billy

Indefensible opinion following, since of course it's Only A Matter Of Taste, And What Does Taste Mean Anyway, Sometimes You Just Like Something, Cigars Are Only Cigars, Societal Trends Don't Exist For Any Underlying Reasons:
I think not liking those nicknames is cowardly. These are all good, old names borne by good, old people with gilded pictures in encyclopedias. The problem is they have also been borne by normal people, whom other people deal with, and whose names were shortened in practical use. These people are also sometimes fat, poor, and/or vulgar. Frederick the Great may have been these things, but not when he was being Frederick the Great. Loving Frederick and hating Fred is a form of self-denial. You want the dignity of the image of the name you've constructed in your head, and don't want the indignity with it. You want a name that will dress in a jacket and bring you roses, and not one that will leave dishes on the counter or forget to put the toilet seat down. Frederick is eternally handsome, and Fred probably has some kind of back hair or halitosis that is unacceptable in idealized constructions of people.

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Well, what's wrong with wanting an ideal. Fine. This is an argument much too big for a simple baby names opinion post. Personally, my opinion is (that it's absolute fact that) beauty doesn't happen until you smear an ideal. And when it comes to the point of imposing these unrealistic idealisms of your kid onto other people - it's NOT Fred! WHY would you shorten his name! I HATE that! it's FREDERICK! and he learns to feel this way too - and people do this all the time, Christopher, Alexander, Benjamin, we can't be called a short common name that everyone else has - it becomes, well, obnoxious. A lot of southerners do this, and because we're so bloody polite it works out okay. It's to the point where I no longer shorten names automatically anymore, even when Jacobs tell me they go by Jake. So stupid.

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I love Alexander but hate the nickname Alex.

Kind of. I mostly can only think of examples where I don't prefer the most common nn, rather than actually disliking it. Like, I love...
Margaret, but not Maggie
Anne, but not Annie
James, but not Jim
So if we were able to use any of these names, we just have different nns we'd use instead.