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Original nicknames kind of squick me when there is no person being called them ... if you said you knew a woman who was called Dami and found out her name was Damiana I might think that was nifty, but when you propose "the occasional nickname 'Dami'" for a hypothetical, nonexistent bearer of the name Damiana, I feel skeptical. If you're talking about a fictional character, it could work, but you'd have to do it in a way that seemed natural, and there are a lot of ways it could seem fake.

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Damiana is one of those rare names that make a statement but it is pretty. FYI I have seen an herb called Damiana marketed as an aphrodisiac. I would probably not call a Damiana 'Dami' no matter how familiar I was with her, because it sounds uncomfortably similar to calling her "dummy."

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OH, you're probably pronouncing Damiana "DAY-mee-anna" or "DAY-mee-ah-na"
so Dami is DAY-mee.
OK that could happen.

This message was edited 11/2/2013, 11:19 AM