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Nope, I've never had one. Once in a while, my older sister would call me Jan, but she was the only one who ever did and it was only once in a while. Nobody else has ever shortened it, ever. I never kicked up a fuss about it, but I definitely would not want to be generally called Jan.

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Once I was waited on by a waitress whose name tag said "Jan" and somehow it came up and she told me that her full name was Janice but she always went by Jan. She's the only other Janice I've ever run into who went by that.

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B.'s real name is Kenneth and he knows so many people, whom I've met, who go by a nickname that is totally unrelated to the name that is on their birth certificates. Once I said to him, "Janice is what's on my birth certificate and Janice is what I'm called. Isn't that crazy?"