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Help[Opinions] Re: love the full name, hate the nickname
in reply to a message by earthnut
August immediately sprung to my head. It's my #1 boys' name ATM but he would never, ever, ever be called "Gus".
Thomas- I love Thomas but hate "Tom". I'd still use it though cos I have known two guys called Thomas that went solely by "Thomas".
Elwood- It's a GP name anyway but I can't think of anything nice to shorten it to- "Woody"? Yeah, totally won't get teased. "El"? Yuck!
Jonathan- I like Jonathan in the MN spot cos John and Jonny are a bit too stale.
Eleanor- I hate "Ellie" and I'm not fussed on "Nori". I'd never use it except maybe as a MN.
Madeleine- Because "Maddy" is soooo common and everyone would assume she was another Madison. Wouldn't use it.
Kirrily- This is an Aussie name if you don't know it, I love it but it automatically gets shortened to "Kirra" which I'm not a fan of at all. I can't get past this and so wouldn't use it.
Adele- I love this as a MN but I dislike Addy cos my neighbour's name is Adolf "Addy" and he's all I think of. (He's an old, German man so it's not weird that his name is Adolf).
As for your names, some Anthonys are just "Anthony", you look at them and you couldn't call them "Tony" even if you wanted to. I've known a few. I personally like "Rory" but you could try any one of the NNs we came up with in yesterday's post, maybe "Ari". I also hate "Bob" and "Larry", Rob and Lance are much better choices. A lot of Amelias get shortened to Millie... The one Amity I knew went by "Amity".
Thomas- I love Thomas but hate "Tom". I'd still use it though cos I have known two guys called Thomas that went solely by "Thomas".
Elwood- It's a GP name anyway but I can't think of anything nice to shorten it to- "Woody"? Yeah, totally won't get teased. "El"? Yuck!
Jonathan- I like Jonathan in the MN spot cos John and Jonny are a bit too stale.
Eleanor- I hate "Ellie" and I'm not fussed on "Nori". I'd never use it except maybe as a MN.
Madeleine- Because "Maddy" is soooo common and everyone would assume she was another Madison. Wouldn't use it.
Kirrily- This is an Aussie name if you don't know it, I love it but it automatically gets shortened to "Kirra" which I'm not a fan of at all. I can't get past this and so wouldn't use it.
Adele- I love this as a MN but I dislike Addy cos my neighbour's name is Adolf "Addy" and he's all I think of. (He's an old, German man so it's not weird that his name is Adolf).
As for your names, some Anthonys are just "Anthony", you look at them and you couldn't call them "Tony" even if you wanted to. I've known a few. I personally like "Rory" but you could try any one of the NNs we came up with in yesterday's post, maybe "Ari". I also hate "Bob" and "Larry", Rob and Lance are much better choices. A lot of Amelias get shortened to Millie... The one Amity I knew went by "Amity".
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I don't mind Gus myself, but would hesitate to use August/Augusta because of awful, awful Augie
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