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Calling all Charlottes and their parents!

26 replies

broodylicious · 10/07/2015 17:47

So we've got Charlotte on our shortlist of girls names. My only fear is the whole shortening thing - Charlie, Lottie etc. Is this unavoidable? Do we need to just accept that it's a name that is often shortened? How do you handle it if people shorten it and you don't want them to?

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ThroughThickAndThin01 · 10/07/2015 17:59

Dsis is Charlotte. Never ever shortened outside the family. Sometimes we call her Chas Confused, not the best shortening! Although it has a lot of letters it's only two syllables so short and easy to say. No longer than Mary, Laura etc.