Message: "Adapted Nicknames"

[Opinions] Adapted Nicknames

by Esyllt (fishl_x)

4/26/2011, 9:31 PM

I recently got a puppy back around Christmas and named her Georgie. I've noticed that, without consciously thinking about it, I call her Georgie-Pie, shortening the rhyme "Georgie porgie pudding and pie."

I know I'm talking about a dog, but does anyone else know someone or go by an "adapted" nickname? Even made up or uncommon nicknames could count.

For example, I remember hearing about a guy named Christopher. He wanted a distinctive nickname, so instead of Chris or Topher he went by Isto. I thought it was kind of neat!

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- Jade Diana (guest)

4/27/2011, 5:31 PM

My friends and I have kind of mastered the art. Most of them are really just for our personal use (Sally = Finnegan even though it isn't her last name. Kimberly = Kimmy Jean/KayJo. I (Jade) = Ronald/Freckles/Fecks. Victoria = Toad. Stephanie = Neffers. Adam = Abba. Jacleene = Queenie. etc..) But some have moved outside. My friend Heather is known as Heds/Hedder/Hedsy, Benjamin has become Benjly or Jama/Jemma, Lyle has become Dash , Rose is now Posy, Adele is Ma belle and my friend Abigail goes by Gail rather than Abby (which I love).
Isto is really creative, I like it.

- indigopearl

4/27/2011, 10:44 AM

I know:

Samantha - Mannie, Man, Mannie-Moo
Charla - La, La-La
Sydney - Sydward
Ariel - Earl
2 Carly's that get called Carl

I know some people who go by their last name or a variation on it too:

LN Hoover - Hoover, Hoov, Hoovs
LN Cook - Cookie

I've also known a few people with short last names that got incorporated in what they're regularly called: Cas Peck, Syd Finn

- meena +1

4/27/2011, 9:45 AM

For me, people I know have managed to give me these weird nicknames for Amanda:
Meena-Kabina
Anda-Panda
Arico
Manda-Bear

I also know:
Abdul that goes by Abba (yes, like the band)
Alexander that goes by Alander
Caitlin that i call Caity-Did (like the candy)
Rebecca "Becky" W. in my dance class that we call B-Dubs

- indigopearl

4/27/2011, 10:43 AM

Wrong Place, Oops!

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- Ceridwen (Joan-Ay)

4/27/2011, 8:40 AM

I know a:
Morgan - "Morgie Kajorgie"
Madeleine - "Mayo"
Melissa - "Melmo" (the -mo comes from the first two letters in her last name)
Johnathan III - "Trey"

- New_Chloe

4/27/2011, 7:31 AM

I know a Christopher called "Crit". I also knew a Kristen called Ten.

I notice that I tend to double things when making up nonsense names. My one cat is called Pretty-Pretty, and the other, Bijou, is often "Bijou-Beej".

- Ranchie

4/27/2011, 6:13 AM

My friend Michelle goes by Micki.

Sometimes I catch myself calling my friend Brittany, Britanica or Britain.

- coldplayer9

4/27/2011, 12:32 AM

My uncle's name is Nicholas, and if it were me, I'd go by Cole, but he goes by Las.

Also, my neighbor's name is Gabrielle, and she didn't want to be another Gaby, so she goes by Brielle.

- Arcadia +1

4/26/2011, 10:27 PM

When I was in junior high, I had an eccentric math teacher. One day, she decided that it made no sense that everyone named Benjamin had the nn Ben and never Jamin, so for the rest of the year she called the one Ben in our class "Jamin". Everyone was quite amused.

- Llewella (penguiny7)

4/27/2011, 3:57 AM

This greatly amuses me, since Benjamin is my son's name. My brother calls him Ben Jammin'.

- Gracie (YMPvt)

4/26/2011, 10:12 PM

My friend Rebecca mostly "Becca" gets "Beccaboo Barbeque" from me. And I'm "Anna Bandana" to her alot. I also have friends (a couple) Bennett and Elizabeth who go by "Nett" and "Zab".

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