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HelpRe: What is your opinion about parents who choose a nice name and then shorten/change it to something else?
in reply to a message by Namaide
It's their choice. If their child wants to be known by a different name, or a different version, that is the child's choice - I'm assuming an adult or even adolescent child, not a six-year-old who wants to be called by the name of a brand of peanut butter.
I know a Laine (not Elaine) and a Vickie (not Victoria), and they both report that if they are in trouble/working for a new person/about to be told some bad news, they typically get called Elaine or Victoria, and unless it comes from the only other person in the room, they typically ignore it because it just isn't their name. And explanations follow. Not the end of the world, but an on-going inconvenience. (Vickie's father registered her birth, only to find that his wife had wanted a different spelling. He didn't change it.)
I know a Laine (not Elaine) and a Vickie (not Victoria), and they both report that if they are in trouble/working for a new person/about to be told some bad news, they typically get called Elaine or Victoria, and unless it comes from the only other person in the room, they typically ignore it because it just isn't their name. And explanations follow. Not the end of the world, but an on-going inconvenience. (Vickie's father registered her birth, only to find that his wife had wanted a different spelling. He didn't change it.)
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