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Help[Opinions] Re: A feminine full name for Scottie?
in reply to a message by Lumi
A word of caution to everyone who suggests Scholastica: it could work, but it would be a stretch, and the more obvious nn would be Schollie. No problem, as long as she avoids South Africa, where the word for an urban petty criminal/gangster is skollie, originally Afrikaans and with a slightly different pronunciation, but in English or when speaking English, Schollie is what it sounds like.
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Schollie would never even occur to me as a nickname for Scholastica.
What would - Lassie? It's a long, clumsy name that would be very hard work to live with, so some kind of nickname would be used, not necessarily a form of the actual name. If short, or very tall, then Shorty, if a redhead, then Ginger, if good at sports then Ace ... lots of possibilities. I knew a Margaret Scott at school; she was known as Scottie because there were other Margaret people around. And at uni, a very good male friend was also universally known as Scottie; took me ages to discover that his name was Ian. So to me, Scottie is surname all the way.
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