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in reply to a message by Cleveland Kent Evans
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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"'Chevrolet,' answered Ramona. 'I named her after my aunt's car.'
The class began to laugh, especially the boys. Ramona felt confused, standing there in front of twenty-eight boys and girls who were all laughing at her."
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"'Chevrolet,' answered Ramona. 'I named her after my aunt's car.'
The class began to laugh, especially the boys. Ramona felt confused, standing there in front of twenty-eight boys and girls who were all laughing at her."
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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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