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Nickname for Victoria
We're pretty well accustomed to Vickie and Torey, various spellings ad lib. But yesterday I found a new one: there's a newly appointed national Police Commissioner here in South Africa, first woman to hold the position, who is usually known as Ria; it turns out that she's actually a Victoria.Ria is widely used here as a nn for Maria, often in compound forms (Rialette, a merger of Maria and Aletta, is very familiar) but that's an Afrikaans habit and the new Commissioner isn't Afrikaans.
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Nickname for Victoria  ·  Anneza  ·  6/13/2012, 5:22 AM
Re: Nickname for Victoria  ·  Elena  ·  6/14/2012, 12:02 PM
Re: Nickname for Victoria  ·  themiddling  ·  6/13/2012, 2:50 PM
Re: Nickname for Victoria  ·  mirfak  ·  6/13/2012, 12:51 PM
Re: Nickname for Victoria  ·  Bear  ·  6/13/2012, 12:28 PM
Re: Nickname for Victoria  ·  Dracotorix  ·  6/13/2012, 11:37 AM
Re: Nickname for Victoria  ·  Alcyone  ·  6/13/2012, 9:01 AM
Re: Nickname for Victoria  ·  humblebee  ·  6/13/2012, 8:39 AM
Re: Nickname for Victoria  ·  Tassiegirl  ·  6/13/2012, 7:02 AM
Re: Nickname for Victoria  ·  Billina  ·  6/13/2012, 5:45 AM
Re: Nickname for Victoria  ·  queenv  ·  6/13/2012, 5:35 AM
Re: Nickname for Victoria  ·  Mireio  ·  6/13/2012, 5:32 AM