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Yeah I have a co-worker who just about ALWAYS refers to her daughter (Autumn) at Aut. I always think, "what a terrible NN" but I catch myself wanting to shorten names a lot too.... which is probably why I'm drawn to one-syllable names or names that have a one-syllable NN. But on the other hand, once you get use to using a full name it sort of just becomes natural. My friends names are Marybeth and Carolyn and I never even think to try to shorten them in speech. I'll sometimes refer to them as Marb and Care/Caro but I have to actually think about it first and it's usually just to abbreviate in text