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in reply to a message by Billina
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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