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Help[Opinions] Re: Perpetua
in reply to a message by Wordsmith
Ettie might catch on, though I don't enjoy it. Perrie seems too much of a stretch - not a stressed syllable, so unlikely to work. As for Petey ... it never happened as a nn for my son Peter, and I really don't think it'd work here either.
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Perry was the first one I thought of. It's natural for the first syllable to spawn the nickname even if it isn't stressed, like: Camilla to Cam, Alexandra/Alexander to Alex, Matteo to Matt, Elizabeth to Ellie, Victoria to Vicky, Nathaniel to Nate, Samantha to Sam, Penelope to Penny, etc. (And a lot of nicknames aren't even first OR stressed like Liam for William, Gail for Abigail, and Lottie for Charlotte, but I do think those would feel like a stretch if they weren't already popular).
My problem with Perry includes pronunciation. Perry has a short e sound, as in get, but the Per- in Perpetua is the sound made by a happy cat.
True. I think it's more 'Per' in Spanish but 'purr' in English, but I still don't think that would bother me since it's the same with Matteo/Matt, Nathaniel/Nate, Samantha/Sam, etc.
Perhaps it's different because those nicknames you listed are all one syllable, whereas Perry is two.