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Call me closed-minded if you want to but anyone who changes their name to anything-dot-com is a bona fide weirdo.
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call my children by their full names
I'm with you, Helen. I always called my son David as opposed to Dave - of course many people do call him Dave, including me occasionally. My other son is Paul and that's pretty hard to shorten, although for a time he was PK to his friends. My mother-in-law was a great one for tacking on the diminutive "ey" (or "ie"). So the grandchildren were Paulie, Davey, Nicoley (I kid you not), and Bricey. The two who escaped were Kristen and Shannon. In general, I prefer using full names as opposed to nicknames.
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Well, if you've ever seen Michaelangelo's Statue of David, I'm proud to say my name does me justice. ~ Juan  I'm married to one!
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I'm married to one!Yes...and I've heard there are others... (Davids on the board, I mean) 
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DaveyCouldn't complain about David, always liked it. But I do like David, not Dave, and especially not Davey. Most of my relatives and friends wind-up calling me Dave after awhile, even after I make the first gratutitous request for them not to. But NEVER Davey! I *hate it!  (yeah, I had my Davey Crockett hat when I was a kid, but...)
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> Paul and that's pretty hard to shorten, although for a time he was PK to his friends
Strange, isn't it? ~ they 'shorten' a single syllable to two!
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anyone who changes their name to anything-dot-com is a bona fide weirdo. Alex, I was wondering if anybody else agreed with me on that!
Yes, it does sound a little strange to shorten a one-syllable name to two, but in earlier times, at least in some places, people were known as having "long names" and "short names", so in that sense it fits. Now that I'm thinking about it, I've not heard those terms in a number of years. Now, what I hear is "full name" and "nickname".
Mm--I agree, on the baby-fying of names, esp. guys' names; for some reason, they seem to be given a harder time by their peers if they don't manage to get rid of it early enough. Although I know 3 guys whom I try to make sure I always call Ron; one is a few years younger than I, and the other 2 are older; and all 3 are called Ronnie at least by their wives, and they don't seem to mind. Benny? Wasn't he one of the bad guys in Sister Act?
Oh--am I really Jacqueline? Not quite; check my e-mail header, wow.
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My middle name was my mother's maiden name - a fact of which I have always been proud. After she died, I tried to get folks to call me by it - never worked. I should have used it as my username - too late now, I hated being strange.
I also know of a man who worked in our ED who was an orphen - married an only-child woman. He decided to take her surname rather than the reverse (our standard) - something we all though terribly romantic. Unfortunately the marriage lasted barely a year. He still, to the best of my knowledge, carries her name!
Why not?
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they 'shorten' a single syllable to two!
I suppose, if you count length by syllables. Run a sonogram on the two varieties and see which takes longer to say. I wouldn't be surprised to find "paul" longer than "peekay"
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Like every Tom, Dick & Harry around here has access to sonography?
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