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[Opinions] Re: Petronella
by
Anneza
4/3/2017, 11:21 PM
in reply to
a message by Felie
Here in South
Africa
it gets a lot of use among Afrikaans-speakers: people see it as a girl version of
Peter
, which isn't accurate but who cares? They shorten it in lots of ways:
Petro
,
Nellie
or
Nella
usually, though I once knew a Nellsie.
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