Well, my name is not really a nick name. I think. Pat is short for Patricia, so that would be a diminutive. (Yes?)
I KNOW I got the right name. My Dad ALWAYS wanted a DD named Pat. So it always seems special that *I* got that one, out of the 5 DD. Patricia came into play on my birth registration so I'd have a "real" name. I am glad of that.
Patricia is a pretty name. It is feminine, but dignified; not cutsey; not weird. Those attributes are important to me. YMMV. Besides, I'd hate to go around saying "No, just Pat, NOT short for Patricia!!" That's what happens to people with a name like Pat. Plus, this gives me options!! Anyhow, "A Rose by any other name ....."
PAT (with Rose in there too.)
Sunny wrote: .....cut.....I have read that if you consistently are "nick named"
We get a fair amount of Cat On Keyboard Error here! And Cornflake has a habit of butting my right elbow hard with his head when he wants attention and I'm typing!
I turned the keyboard over and whacked it a few times, and it seems to be behaving properly for now...
Curious, while some people call DD2 Mandy or Mindy (properly it's Mundi), more often than not when they miscall her name it is Wendy. Maybe some people think there ought to be more Wendy's in the world?
NightMist who th>Interesting about nicknames/wrong names.
Hmmmm....this thread got me thinking....yeah, I know, scary thought, anyway...
My birth name was Lara Skidmore Dix..not the best initials to have growing up and the combination of the middle and last names did nothing but call unending humiliation.
At 18, I legally changed my name to Larisa-Rose Caldwell Skidmore (long story, suffice it to say that Larisa is the real name of the person I was named for, parents divorced, so I took Mother's maiden name). Then I got married, dropped the Skidmore, added Espersen...divorced, remarried at a more mature age to a more mature man (still married to him, and name COMPLETELY changed again!!
Now it's Larisa Rose Vann....no hyphenated first name, no hyphenated last name, no association with either parent. But you know, I have nicknames out the whazoo!!!
Everybody that met me before I turned 18 calls me Lara, after 18, Larisa. DH calls me Risa. Least-favorite BIL calls me Laurel (he
*knows* better, he's just the type to enjoy antagonizing me). Then there are all the nicknames i had growing up. One uncle always called me "Meanness"...he still tries to get away with it, but since the "uncle" dropped and I call him Donnie, he is begining to see me as an adult, not the little kid he used to tease. One grandmother used to call me "dumplin'", but she also called my little cousin that...saved her the stress because SHE *knew* that is she called us by the other's name, we would pitch a royal fit (Lara and Tara...not sure what my aunt was thinking when she named my cousin that...guess she likes confusion and chaos). My other grandmother called me "angel", which was always good for a giggle, then when Rebekah was born, she referred to her as her "little angel" (this grandmother only got to see Rebekah twice before she passed away, the other grandmother dies before Thomas was born).
So....I never know what name people will refer to me, but lately, I have just started answering to any name that ends in the "issa" sound...lol
Larisa
Pat > Well, my name is not really a nick name. I think. Pat is short for
My name is Michele. one "L" not two. All through school I was put in the Boy's gym class. For 6 years I was always in the school office on the first day to tell them I was NOT a boy. I still get called Michael and get mail addressed to Michael. Most people just see the Mich and automatically figure my name is Michael. Sometimes I want to scream I am a woman not a man. Let's face it I have different plumbing!
People look at Johanna and usually just say Joann, which while a nice name, is not my name. Germans and Scandinavians pronounce it Yo-hanna which, hey, is close enough to make me turn round. I prefer it to be pronounced Jo-hanna so I can shorten it to Jo, not Yo. However, there is no J in Russian, so my Russian friends call me Yana (a Polish name, but sounds like Yo-hanna, no?) My Japanese friends call me Jo-chan. My friend Keiko's triplets have decided that my name is Jo-jo. I don't really mind, I answer to them all.. Just don't call me late for dinner.
-- Jo in Scotland (I do object to Jeremy, Charlie, etc. I am not a bloke!)
That's because they are hearing her say Mundi with Southern ears! Wendy is probably the closest name they can think of to match the sound she is saying.
Personally, I've never liked the name Wendy. I've met several lately, and none of them seem to suit the name. DH calls me Maggie - I much prefer that!
Wendy(Peter Pan's girlfriend; Casper's co-hort; and fast-food burger chain)
My favorite nickname/misname ever was a Russian patient who called me Nadine. My mental image of a Nadine is a svelte, stylish, sophisticated woman; while I am round, average height, and wear uniforms at work & jeans at home. I love to think that someone in this world looked at me and saw a Nadine.
Every now and again someone will take it into their head to call me "Babs". This generally inspires visions of their very messy death in me. Then there was the guy at the hardware store/lumber yard who took it into his head to start calling me "Bobette the Builder". Which while it did not end up with him staked amongst the plumbing fixtures with a
4x4, did bring a bit of sunshine to my day when he called me that as his (female) supervisor came through the door behind him. Made me glad I had been so good and not made any bobette-bobbit cracks.
NightMist now do>My favorite nickname/misname ever was a Russian patient who called me
I have been called "Pati" or some variation of that for as long as I can remember. I chose to spell it with one "t" and an "i" as soon as I had any say in the matter. Have always insisted, (no offense meant to any of the others on this or other list who use this....) that "Pat" was not, and never would be my name. To me it was a "boy's" name. And my sixth grade class had, including me, 3 Patricias and a Patrick. So we had Patricia (she had always been called the full name), a Pat, a Pati, and a PattyO (her last name was Osborne). Then in High School I occasionally got "Patickey" (my maiden name was Hacke, pronounced with a long e at the end.) Also got "Peppermint Patty" and a few others along the way. (Yes including the primary school hurtful "Fatty Patty".)
Every so often it would irritate me when my mother would go through the whole list of names (4 of us), including "Bryan", to get to my name. I am the eldest so you would think she would start there........
My brother was the only one who didn't have a nick name growing up. Even my mom is known as Nita, instead of Anita (except back in Ill. where she is AnitaLea pronounced as one 4 syllable word.
Pati, > My family nickname has always been Jess I have taken to using it a lot when
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