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HelpRe: Which nickname for Beatrice?
in reply to a message by lepetitviolet
My daughter uses Bea and pronounces it Bee.
I sometimes used to call her Bea, pronounced BAY-a, but I think I've stopped.
My mother was mostly known as Bea like my daughter; some relatives sometimes called her Beattie though she wished they wouldn't. One of her friends used to call her Bess!
Birdie seems like too much of a stretch.
There's always Trixie I suppose! And when my husband was a child, one of his friends had a mother known as Trissie, which he accepted without a second thought and, in later life, conjectured that it was probably short for Beatrice. But there's no proof.
I sometimes used to call her Bea, pronounced BAY-a, but I think I've stopped.
My mother was mostly known as Bea like my daughter; some relatives sometimes called her Beattie though she wished they wouldn't. One of her friends used to call her Bess!
Birdie seems like too much of a stretch.
There's always Trixie I suppose! And when my husband was a child, one of his friends had a mother known as Trissie, which he accepted without a second thought and, in later life, conjectured that it was probably short for Beatrice. But there's no proof.
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