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I do insist on a K! And I also prefer Katharine to Katherine, which strikes me as an uncomfortable French-Greek hybrid. But I'd rather have Catherine than Kathryn.

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Nicknames are probably inevitable - I do know one Catherine who accepts nothing less, but she's a very unusual person all round. Kathy is dated and Kate has been too popular for too long, so fortunately there's Kitty to cheer me up. And, indeed, I once had a Catherine cat who was known as Katie the Kitty and sometimes as Kitty; I used the C spelling for her because it contains the word 'cat' and can also be pronounced without the 'th' blend, as it is in French. Cat-er-een.