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[Facts] Re: Nessie & May

by Anneza

9/14/2006, 7:19 AM

Nessie isn't the Loch Ness Monster ... or I hope it isn't ... it's a nickname form of Agnes. May could be Marjory I suppose, but it's also often a form of Mary so that might be worth a try.

Nicknames are a minefield; some are pretty standard but some can arise spontaneously from some trivial event that no outsider could possibly guess at. Good luck!

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- Chrisell +3

9/14/2006, 7:43 AM

"some can arise spontaneously from some trivial event that no outsider could possibly guess at"

Lol, that is very true. My aunt - real name Helen Gisela - has been known her entire life as Penny, to everyone. Why? Because her hair was the brassy colour of a new penny when she was born, and the nickname stuck. But people still wonder how the family got Penny from Helen!

♦ Chrisell ♦

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. - J.R.R. Tolkien.

- Anneza

9/14/2006, 10:34 PM

Remarkable! I also know a Penny who is actually an Yvonne Frances - in her case she was known, as a baby, as Penny Squeaker. When she got to university, she acquired the new nickname of Lopes (as in Walks like a cowboy) as a component of Penelope ... she answered to it quite happily.

- Tassiegirl

9/14/2006, 12:05 PM

I had an aunt who was always called Pat, even by her husband-her name was actually Elsie. I don't know why, though I suppose someone must. As a sort of post-script-her niece was named after her--Patrica! always called Patty, or really, Paddy.
another addition-an uncle (same family) names Edgar, was known as Tee-Tee. not by his friends though, they called him Ed.

- gigibee (guest)

9/14/2006, 10:00 AM

Your aunt's getting her nickname as a baby makes me think of Ronald Reagan, who was nicknamed Dutch by his father, and went by Dutch for a long time. His father thought the baby Ronald looked like "a little Dutchman."
My son Garrett's nn is Wally. His big brother called him Wally when they were little -- for what reason, I don't know.

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