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HelpRe: nicknames as given names?
in reply to a message by Vulcan-rebel
I'm a great believer in choice. Name a kid Chris, and a serial killer known as Chris - especially if the lns are the same or close - in the vicinity would leave him stranded, but if he were Christopher he could become Christo or Tiff or just use the full form. And fashions in nns change. How old is the youngest Cathy you know? The youngest Betty? And yet there are so many Kate and Lisa people - many of them Catherines and Elizabeths who've rejected botox in favour of a name tweak.
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It's always good to have options. Plus, as Millie said, people will often assume you've got the full name even if you haven't, which probably gets very annoying after a while.
It's always good to have options. Plus, as Millie said, people will often assume you've got the full name even if you haven't, which probably gets very annoying after a while.
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Ask my niece Laine and my friend Vickie! They both report that when there's trouble of any kind, people call them Elaine and Victoria respectively, and when it's called out, eg across an open-plan office, they naturally ignore it with messy consequences.
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