My mom's the opposite. Her name is Kathleen, but don't you dare call her anything but Kathy. She gets really mad, but it's like... strangers aren't going to know so when you go to the dr's office and they see your paperwork says Kathleen they're going to call you that. That being said, the nurse after my daughter's scope looked at the board in the room and then called my daugher Kassie.. her name is Karissa. I corrected her and she looked at the board again and said Sorry, Karissa. We call my kids their messed up names b/c it's funny now. The older one was happy when they messed up her sister's name b/c now she wasn't the only one.
I forgot the BEST name I've come across! There is a child out there who's name is Yur'Majesty. IDK why.. but there is. Poor kid!
I would have pronounced it w/ the long I too. My mom's maiden name is Maur which she says rhymes w/ hour, but her uncle's wife decided she didn't like how it sounded and everyone else says it as Marr. My mom said her gma said it the other way and that's the right way.I got "blessed" with Rhonda in 1969. Surprisingly, the were 2 others with the same name in my 1st grade class. My mom was Lois, but was always called Luis the first day of school. Her last name didn't make things any better, as it was Christ, and everyone pronounced it in the biblical way. The "i" is a short vowel, not long, and she is definitely not related to the other pronunciation. Of course I should be shot, too, my DDs are Jennifer, Loretta, Katie and Kelly. They are also known by Jenn, Rae, Bug and Skeeter, just to make sure that I really do deserve to be shot.Each of their full names has some reference to a favorite relative, and they know it, but not all of them like their names at the moment. (Just to show our sense of humor, we joke that my mom should have had a brother named Jesus, pronounced the traditional Hispanic way. Imagine THAT on the first day of school
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One of our libraries is in a college town so we get a lot of middle eastern names that I cannot pronounce.
It's beautiful! Probably less awkward than people asking where the Cockerham farm is.. b/c you know they're going to butcher it.
I always thought the same thing. And the joke that goes w/ it is hilarious... But it's a family site so I won't say it here. I expect most of you've already heard it.I never understood how Richard became Dick. There's no D or K in Richard.
Growing up my mom called me PeeWee. After the Paul Reubens scandal I told her that needed to stop. LOL I then somehow became Missy. Like "Listen here Missy." as she probably shook a finger at me.
I don't have a problem with nicknames or if you want to be called something else. I just don't like the assumption that's it's ok to shorten my given name. It's so hard to go back once it's stuck. Grew up with "Billy". When he went to college he decided to go by his given name Clyde. I'll never be able to call him that! He was Billy my whole life. People from my small town that went to the same college had to adapt and now when I hear "I talked to Clyde the other day...." I ask who? " You know, Billy." Ha ha ha
I don't get Bill out of William, or Hank out of Henry... there's so many that make no sense at all. I assume it was born out of necessity since everyone in the olden days of having 231 kids who were all named after everyone else.
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