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In South Africa, it used to be polite for children to address older, parent-aged women as Aunty (and men as Uncle). And I know of a woman, probably no longer alive, who always went by her childhood nickname, which was Baby. And she was called Aunty Baby. This depressed me; and I feel the same about Nova. She will in all likelihood live to be over 80, by which time she'll be a Super-Nova all right.

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As for Luna-Rae ... all I can say is, it's an improvement on Moonbeam. And it seems so easy to give her the nn Luny, or of course Loony.