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Some nicknames seem to be suitable for adults and children, but others don't seem to last into adulthood. So a successful professional man or woman would seem to lose some dignity if they went by a babyish nickname.

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I knew a woman, a friend's mother when we were kids, who had been the youngest child in a big family and was always called Baby. And it stuck. Her husband called her Baby, and her nieces and nephews called her Aunty Baby. She didn't seem to mind; I suppose she'd never known anything different. But I found it embarrassing. For what it's worth, she was brisk and busy and a teacher of Physical Education.