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in reply to a message by Billina
...they will be calling him Quincy, since that's the NN they chose for him while he was still in the womb.
Well, Quincy is at least better than Spurgeon. :/
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Well, Quincy is at least better than Spurgeon. :/
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If this is true, then Quincy is only marginally better. I really don't understand the practice of naming a child one name and giving them a nn that is completely unrelated. My youngest, Anna, had a science teacher last year who is as old as my oldest dd (mid 20s). Her birth name is Berkley yet the parents had always planned to call her Teddy after a cartoon they'd seen while the mom was pregnant with her. I could understand modifying the fn to accommodate Teddy (Theodora, Dorothea) yet it has no relationship to her real name at all. That's kind of odd and confusing, imo.
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I understand it in the case of a son being named after his father, and then giving him a nickname to avoid confusion. This was why my father Joseph was called Bud.
My SO goes by a completely unrelated nickname. In his culture, this is extremely common. When I questioned someone more knowledgeable than I about why that is, I was told that it's because to have a street name is protection against the police. Sounds reasonable. But in my SO's case, he was called by his nickname from very early childhood. His nickname is that of a great-uncle. I'm not sure why it's not on his birth certificate. I mean, I think his nickname is ridiculous, but his mother thought it was good enough to call him by, so I don't know why she didn't think it was good enough to put on his birth certificate.
My SO goes by a completely unrelated nickname. In his culture, this is extremely common. When I questioned someone more knowledgeable than I about why that is, I was told that it's because to have a street name is protection against the police. Sounds reasonable. But in my SO's case, he was called by his nickname from very early childhood. His nickname is that of a great-uncle. I'm not sure why it's not on his birth certificate. I mean, I think his nickname is ridiculous, but his mother thought it was good enough to call him by, so I don't know why she didn't think it was good enough to put on his birth certificate.
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They should have just named the damn kid Quincy and been done with it.
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My thoughts exactly!
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So Agree.
This is two people trying to look smart and religious, and instead looking like morons.
This is two people trying to look smart and religious, and instead looking like morons.
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That's a relief. But why not Quincy Spurgeon?
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