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HelpRe: No nicknames, please!
in reply to a message by Sofia
For obvious reasons, this is definitely not a sibset:
Thora
Maura
Hera
Blaise
Graham
Stellan (I think anything you could get out of Stellan would sound far too overtly feminine to be expected)
Thora
Maura
Hera
Blaise
Graham
Stellan (I think anything you could get out of Stellan would sound far too overtly feminine to be expected)
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I certainly can't think of anything:-)
Maybe there's Scandinavian nickname for Stellan?
Maybe there's Scandinavian nickname for Stellan?
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Nah, where I live it's pronounced as only one syllable: "GRAM". There's no way to get 'gray' out of that - the 'a's aren't pronounced the same way at all.
This message was edited 11/13/2009, 8:48 PM
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Wait, so does your friend's husband pronounce his name as 'Gray-am' or 'Gram'?
I just can't imagine that anyone could reasonably get 'Gray' out of Graham as it is pronounced where I live (to get anything that sounds even remotely like 'gray' into 'Graham', I end up sounding like I'm affecting a British accent), that they would ever attempt to, or even that they would think to, and I stand by putting it on my list.
I just can't imagine that anyone could reasonably get 'Gray' out of Graham as it is pronounced where I live (to get anything that sounds even remotely like 'gray' into 'Graham', I end up sounding like I'm affecting a British accent), that they would ever attempt to, or even that they would think to, and I stand by putting it on my list.
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Some people pronounce it Gram and others pronounce it Gray-am; I guess it's more like Gray-em/Gray-um. Both are legit. Before I met him I would never have gotten Gray, either.
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I'm not really arguing legtimacy, though; no one would pronounce it "Gray-um" where I live. I didn't even realize that that pronunciation existed elsewhere until a few months ago. If it's pronounced "GRAM" and that's the only accepted pronunciation in the region, no one's going to give a Graham the nn 'Gray'.
I mean, I understand that Gray could be a nickname possibility in another situation, but with the pronunciation that I would use it's not even fathomable. Maybe I should have put "Graham (pronounced as 'GRAM')" in my original post?
I mean, I understand that Gray could be a nickname possibility in another situation, but with the pronunciation that I would use it's not even fathomable. Maybe I should have put "Graham (pronounced as 'GRAM')" in my original post?
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