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Re: No nicknames, please!
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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?
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