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Re: Bram & Ean/Ian
by Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)
10/21/2007, 1:55 PM
in reply to a message by LMS
Bram could be a pet form for either Abram or Abraham. Of course it's possible others used it before Bram Stoker; I think it's highly unlikely that his friends or relatives were the first people in an English speaking country to ever think of shortening Abram or Abraham to Bram. It seems like a rather obvious way to create a nickname to me. :)
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- LMS   +1
10/21/2007, 2:59 PM
Do you think it is possible to have a character named Bram without using it as a nn for Abram or Abraham? Is it possibly that people used the nn on its own just as Elise is used as a name on its own free of Elisabeth?
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- Cleveland Kent Evans (clevelandkentevans)
10/21/2007, 3:27 PM
This depends on what kind of a story you are writing. There would be a great many stories where it simply would not be necessary to mention what the character's "official birth certificate" name was, and you could just have other people address him as Bram without mentioning one way or the other whether or not it was short for something else.
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