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Re: Eppie
by Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)
2/11/2009, 12:34 PM
in reply to a message by BrilliantBlue
Hephzibah is not "nickname free". In George Eliot's novel Silas Marner, the character named Hephzibah is called Eppie. And there would be plenty of other short forms one could get out of Hephzibah with a little effort. (Heppie, Zibbie, Ezzie, etc.)http://www.schoolbytes.com/summary.php?id=435
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- Sabrina
2/11/2009, 4:24 PM
Eppie is a pretty common nickname in my culture, and it is always male. (We use it for Eprim, which is our variant of Ephraim.)I would certainly go with Effie, but I would avoid Eppie unless one wants to receive strange looks from Middle Easterners (and possibly others as well).
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