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Yes. I really can't imagine people being caused confusion (lol) from encountering a Helena nn Lainie unless they had serious BtN mania (seek help). This thread is edging toward OCD.
I have an aunt whose name is Manijeh. Everyone calls her Kiki. Has this ever been a huge problem for her? Um, not so much. I have an aunt named Soraya who is called Ghinny (hard G). I referred to my grandmother as "Bobb" until I was about 9 (her name is Alice). Some people call me "Brer." I had a teacher once whose name is Eleanor who went by Bunny. And let's not forget Bonnie Blue Butler from Gone With the Wind whose real name was Eugenia Victoria.
A nickname can be any name that sound like a diminutive whether or not it traditionally suggests a first name. I know a Maggie who is a Mary Agnes.
Lainie could also be a nickname for Magdalene. Or Eléonore.
The constant discussion of nicknames on this site is dreadfully uninteresting to me.
I have an aunt whose name is Manijeh. Everyone calls her Kiki. Has this ever been a huge problem for her? Um, not so much. I have an aunt named Soraya who is called Ghinny (hard G). I referred to my grandmother as "Bobb" until I was about 9 (her name is Alice). Some people call me "Brer." I had a teacher once whose name is Eleanor who went by Bunny. And let's not forget Bonnie Blue Butler from Gone With the Wind whose real name was Eugenia Victoria.
A nickname can be any name that sound like a diminutive whether or not it traditionally suggests a first name. I know a Maggie who is a Mary Agnes.
Lainie could also be a nickname for Magdalene. Or Eléonore.
The constant discussion of nicknames on this site is dreadfully uninteresting to me.
This message was edited 3/19/2012, 3:50 PM
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Not too surprising, since it's mentioned just once in the novel, and after that she's always called Bonnie. And actually, it's EugeniE Victoria, not EugeniA Victoria. I knew it, but then, I bet I could best everyone here in a GWTW trivia contest. What happened, see, is that it was decided she'd be named Eugenie Victoria "after two queens", but then Rhett said her eyes were going to be pea green, at which point Melanie opined that they were going to be blue, "as blue as the Bonnie Blue Flag", at which point Rhett laughed and said, "Bonnie Blue Butler" and after that she was called Bonnie, until even her parents forgot she was named after two queens, much the same way that Pittypat had supplanted Sarah Jane (Aunt Pittypat Hamilton, you remember) many years before. Pittypat got her nickname from her fond father because of the sound her feet made as she ran around as a child. Whew! Enough GWTW for ya?
Anyway, I made this post to correct that small error and to say that I far prefer both Eugenie and Victoria to Bonnie (yuk), so I think this fictional nickname choice was a poor one!
That, and for some reason, I can't sleep.
Anyway, I made this post to correct that small error and to say that I far prefer both Eugenie and Victoria to Bonnie (yuk), so I think this fictional nickname choice was a poor one!
That, and for some reason, I can't sleep.
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I love the interesting names and nicknames in GWTW. I always thought it was interesting that both of Scarlett's sisters went by mash-up names. Suellen's real name was Susan Elinor and Carreen's was Caroline Irene. I feel like Margaret Mitchell must have been a name nerd.
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lol me too. Nicknames should be spontaneous and fun, I think.
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