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Kit from Kitty from Katharine. Or Katrina! Pip from Philippa. And, surely, Cornelia could also give rise to Corey.

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I like Kit, though I prefer Kitty. I also prefer Pippa to Pip. Both Corinne and Corina have the stress firmly on the middle syllable, which makes me think that natural nicknames would probably be Reen or Reena rather than Corey. The first syllable of Cornelia doesn't carry the main stress, but it does seem more clearly articulated than the first syllables of Corinne and Corina.

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I also prefer Christopher to female Chris- names. Two of my great-grandmothers were named Christiana (and known as Chrissie), so I'd love to have had the chance to use it, but it would have been strictly as a mn.