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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.
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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.