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Nicknames among my family and friends are established when someone, not anyone in particular, calls the individual in question by a name other than his or her own, and that name afterwards becomes what the stated individual answers to. i.e., Sadie received the nickname Taidlie due to little brother Silas not being able to say Sadie correctly. Israel's parents actually decided to call him Sunshine before he born, and did so for about the first year of his life. I go by Kettie because the same Silas, for some strange reason unbeknownst to me, decided that was a good name for me. Anyway, we're pretty informal about nicknames, and it's my opinion that as long as the child getting the nickname doesn't have any objections, anything goes. Also, I'm from Oklahoma, to answer your question.

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~*|Bethany|*~
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"To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man"
Hamlet, Act i, Sc.3
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