You know what? I just realised we do the same thing in my family. We're big nn people and everyone's name gets shortened almost automatically. Our sibset (taking out some of my half-sibs) is
Elise "Lissy",
Michael,
Anthony "Ant" or "Anty",
Eimear "Eims" and
Marguerite "
Daisy". I find it really strange that
Michael is still almost exclusively just
Michael. Its not that he doesn't like
Mike or Mikey or
Mick and it isn't that my Dad doesn't like any of them. Just none of them ever really stuck and I can't really picture him as anything else but
Michael now.
Its nice to see
Thomas in its full form too. My boss has four sons named
Thomas,
Matthew,
Nathan and
Joshua who all go by their full names. Its really refreshing although
Thomas was telling me that his school friends do call him
Tom so I think its still unavoidable on some level :(