Message: "Re: nicknames that became names in their own right"

[Opinions] Re: nicknames that became names in their own right

by Rosa (pinkmoon_lj)

5/29/2008, 2:00 PM

I think Lisa and Jack can stand on their own. Jack is a medieval coinage, and IMO it seems rather silly to call a child John and then insist on calling him Jack 99% of the time. I know my neighbour (an 85yo John nn Jack) got incredibly frustrated when he was in hospital and all of the doctors insisted on calling him John because there was no space on the forms to write a preffered name.

Has anyone said Harry or Tessa? Or Toby? Hmm maybe not Toby.

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nicknames that became names in their own right · Murasaki · 5/29/2008, 4:07 AM

•Yes all of them & there are plenty more. nt · Pink Princess · 5/30/2008, 12:38 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · lac · 5/29/2008, 4:43 PM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · Snuffles · 5/29/2008, 4:17 PM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · Rosa · 5/29/2008, 2:00 PM

•Yes, some · REM · 5/29/2008, 1:08 PM

•Nope! Just Nora. · Tippins · 5/29/2008, 11:34 AM

•Re: Nope! Just Nora. · 1066 · 5/29/2008, 12:29 PM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · Jonquil · 5/29/2008, 9:04 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · Laura W · 5/29/2008, 8:14 AM

•Lucy and Ana are not nicknames nt · jeziana · 5/29/2008, 8:33 AM

•Neither is Leo, and Clay has a non-nickname etymology as well as being a nn for Clayton. · Dot · 5/29/2008, 12:33 PM

•yes to jack nt · 1066 · 5/29/2008, 7:44 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · Bettina · 5/29/2008, 7:37 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · Bettina · 5/29/2008, 8:50 PM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · Rosa · 5/29/2008, 1:53 PM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · Elinor · 5/29/2008, 6:15 AM

•Not necessarily... · 1066 · 5/29/2008, 12:38 PM

•Molly and Jack · Lauren B · 5/29/2008, 8:26 AM

•Re: Molly and Jack · Elinor · 5/29/2008, 10:53 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · CN · 5/29/2008, 7:04 AM

•Adding Evie, Lola, Libby and Tilly ... nt · Elinor · 5/29/2008, 6:16 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · penguiny7 · 5/29/2008, 5:54 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · queenv · 5/29/2008, 5:53 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · jeziana · 5/29/2008, 5:45 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · CN · 5/29/2008, 4:51 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · Murasaki · 5/29/2008, 5:45 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · Hannah Ruth · 5/29/2008, 4:23 AM

•Re: nicknames that became names in their own right · Rooster · 5/29/2008, 4:08 AM

•I knew a Polly in high school and that was her full name. nt · queenv · 5/29/2008, 5:49 AM

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