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Help[Opinions] Re: Can I use first and middle name? Nick name help!
in reply to a message by Woods
If you'd really wanted to call her Juliet/Jules, I think you would have used that as her first name all along.
Lots of people go by their mns, but more often they do that as their own choice later on in life; when their parents set out to call them by the mn from the start it's usually because 1. The child is named after a parent or 2. The parents felt under some kind of pressure to use a name they didn't necessarily love as the fn.
I personally would not enjoy having almost the same sounding name as a cousin if we spent any time together, and I especially wouldn't like it if my parents deliberately chose to go out of their way to give me a nn that was so similar to that cousin's name.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
Lots of people go by their mns, but more often they do that as their own choice later on in life; when their parents set out to call them by the mn from the start it's usually because 1. The child is named after a parent or 2. The parents felt under some kind of pressure to use a name they didn't necessarily love as the fn.
I personally would not enjoy having almost the same sounding name as a cousin if we spent any time together, and I especially wouldn't like it if my parents deliberately chose to go out of their way to give me a nn that was so similar to that cousin's name.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you criticize him, you're a mile away and you have his shoes!
Steve Martin
