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Help[Opinions] Re: No nicknames, please!
in reply to a message by Petra
I'm not saying it makes sense - although some people pronounce it gray-am; it's a friend's husband's name and nn. OT: They were going to name their first child Grayson, "because Grayson means son of Gray."
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Wait, so does your friend's husband pronounce his name as 'Gray-am' or 'Gram'?
I just can't imagine that anyone could reasonably get 'Gray' out of Graham as it is pronounced where I live (to get anything that sounds even remotely like 'gray' into 'Graham', I end up sounding like I'm affecting a British accent), that they would ever attempt to, or even that they would think to, and I stand by putting it on my list.
I just can't imagine that anyone could reasonably get 'Gray' out of Graham as it is pronounced where I live (to get anything that sounds even remotely like 'gray' into 'Graham', I end up sounding like I'm affecting a British accent), that they would ever attempt to, or even that they would think to, and I stand by putting it on my list.
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Some people pronounce it Gram and others pronounce it Gray-am; I guess it's more like Gray-em/Gray-um. Both are legit. Before I met him I would never have gotten Gray, either.
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I'm not really arguing legtimacy, though; no one would pronounce it "Gray-um" where I live. I didn't even realize that that pronunciation existed elsewhere until a few months ago. If it's pronounced "GRAM" and that's the only accepted pronunciation in the region, no one's going to give a Graham the nn 'Gray'.
I mean, I understand that Gray could be a nickname possibility in another situation, but with the pronunciation that I would use it's not even fathomable. Maybe I should have put "Graham (pronounced as 'GRAM')" in my original post?
I mean, I understand that Gray could be a nickname possibility in another situation, but with the pronunciation that I would use it's not even fathomable. Maybe I should have put "Graham (pronounced as 'GRAM')" in my original post?
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