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[Facts] Re: *cough*

by Daividh (guest)

12/9/2000, 5:41 AM

Hear, hear. Very nicely put, and I agree with your sentiments. The only objection I've ever had to the name is people's tendency to shorten it to "Jessie", which is ugly...altho nowhere near as bad as "Missy" for "Melissa" (a perfectly good name itself).

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- Mel (guest) +1

12/21/2000, 7:52 PM

I agree completely with the Missy/Melissa thing. Although my friends christened me "Mel" five years ago. I spent an entire year resisting, insisting I was *not* Mel, during which they called me "Not Mel".

I gave up. It stuck. So it goes.

- Daividh (guest)

12/23/2000, 6:59 PM

My niece, Melanie, also fought and lost on the "Mel" tag. Over the years, we've all learned to live with it. Oh course, my sister, Alison, has been "Al" for over thirty years with no apparent negative impacts on her feminine image.

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