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My aunt is the only person who'd have the audacity to come up with something like "blairy-may" and then use it in public as well. I let her get away with it, since I only see her once in a blue moon.

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I don't like nicknames at all. I've never felt that close to anyone where I felt like they could start calling me whatever they felt like, palling around like that. My name is so short- and how often do we use peoples' names anyway?- is it so difficult to say the whole thing?

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My college roommate- who(m) I couldn't stand in the first place- would call me "B" and it drove me up the wall. I wrote a lengthy rant about it- and nicknames in general- on Myspace. =P

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She would call our other roommate Katharine- who also hates nicknames- "Kat", which was the NN she hated most. I think she knew we hated it. Hmmm...

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I have a very hard-nosed stance about this. My hypothetical future-son, Ignatius, will be called Ignatius, and if anyone calls asking for Iggy, they'll be told no one by that name lives in my house. My mom did the same thing when anyone would call asking for me or my brother by nickname, and I know plenty of other mothers like that.

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It may seem silly, but it is what it is.

This message was edited 3/9/2009, 12:57 AM