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What are your kid's names shortened to?

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Twinkie1 · 10/04/2008 11:14

Just thinking after reading - is Peter a boring name thread - how I would hate the DCs to have names that sounded awful shortened - Dave, Phil, Pete etc.

What are your kids names shortened to and do any of you get pissed that they are shortened at all - DS has a really weird long name that is shortened - as we call him the shortened version - not his Sunday name- DD's is never really shortened - some call her Hetty (which she hates) or H but never anything which I find really horrid!

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BexieID · 11/04/2008 12:32

My grandparents always call me Rebecca. My parents called me Rebecca when I was naughty. I didn't get called Beckie at school until year 10, when some friends and teachers just started using Beckie instead. At work, I've always been known as Beckie and I always introduce myself as Beckie.

FIL is James Michael, and everyone calls him Mick.

squeaver · 11/04/2008 12:31

Thanks Solitaire. I usually use Rebecca for telling-off so thought it might instill some authority from the start

Solitaire · 11/04/2008 12:29

If she addresses herself as Beckie then continue with it. Everyone at work calls me Beckie and always has done.
For me it was the other way round, I was (and still am) Beckie to everyone except my parents from approx 12 years old on.

Solitaire · 11/04/2008 12:26

Oh Bexie, he's cute!
My TomTom is an 8 year old with a great sense of humour

squeaver · 11/04/2008 12:23

Bexie - question for you, pls. Were you called Rebecca at school and Beckie at home? Not sure what to do for my lo when she starts school. I call her both. All her friends call her Beckie. She calls herself Beckie. Feel like it should be Rebecca for school - her "proper" name

Solitaire · 11/04/2008 12:22

DS1 James (Jimbo, JamieJames, Jimbob Mick - middle names Michael) was called San Miguel in the womb as he was conceived in Spain after a few beers!

BexieID · 11/04/2008 12:22

Something that needs updating, but a little site I did for him here.

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BexieID · 11/04/2008 12:19

We call our Thomas, TomTom as well. Or T-man, lol. Tom was known as Jaffa cake when I was pregnant and my friends down south still call him that!

When we were little, my brother called me Ha-Ha because he couldn't say Rebecca!

Solitaire · 11/04/2008 12:12

We call our Thomas Tomtom at home. V funny when he decides in the car that he is a sat nav system and gives directions. Have learnt not to follow them

VictorianSqualor · 11/04/2008 12:09

For some reason I seem to lengthen my DC's names, not shorten them.
Bobby has become Bobski and Ella has become either Ellaroo, Elspeth or 'The girl who has the answer and the question too'

oliviaelanasmum · 11/04/2008 12:09

My daughters are called :
Olivia-Mae - liv
Elana-Rose -Lana (which i hate!)
Maisy-Rae - Maize

Dont get me started on their nicknames!!
Gravy Face
Banana Nose
Moo

molette · 11/04/2008 12:05

cute! Bob's evolving too - the Bobster, Bobo,

babyontheway · 11/04/2008 12:01

daniel = baby d or danman or just my little man!

Solitaire · 11/04/2008 11:47

Finn FInny the Finster
what a dude!!

molette · 11/04/2008 11:47

I have a Joseph Robin. Somewhere along the line he's become Bob - and we quite like it. His sister has been Boo since birth - again for reasons long forgotten. So it's Bob n Boo. Our days are numbered though, I can sense a rebellion stirring!

Piffle · 11/04/2008 11:45

Max - Max or dd calls him Maxi
Emilia = Emmy, Ems emmity wemmity woo or M
Finbar = Finn Finny the Finster

Phoenix · 11/04/2008 11:43

Ds(2) is Lewis, he gets Lew, Lewie, Lewby My brothers sometimes call him LJ (middle name James)

CrackerOfNuts · 11/04/2008 11:31

Lauren - Lol or Lolly

Chloe - Chlo

Harry - H (I don't call him this as I don't like it)

Sedge · 11/04/2008 11:29

First time Mumsnetter and here goes!
My mother is responsible for my kids nicknames (that said it is pretty much just her that uses them too) DD1 is Plum (looked like one when born) DD2 is Limpet (refused to leave my hip for years) and DS is Big Boy (one to live up to if it follows him into later life). Rachel (me) gets to be Rachey, which if anyone else called me I'd die. Rach is fine for those who know me well....

Solitaire · 11/04/2008 11:06

Me neither!
I only spell it like that cos when I was a t school and decided I would shorten my name, my best friend had a lettering set that had no y's left in it, therefore Beckie was born!
However do get miffed at wrong spelling

AND you've got a Tom, we are SO alike!!

BexieID · 11/04/2008 11:03

I get the naughty child feeling as well if anyone other than family call me Rebecca. It also annoys me when people spell Beckie, Becky. Not the common way please! Apparently though, Beckie is the Chav version, lol. I aint got no Burberry cap, tracksuit or big gold earrings!

Solitaire · 11/04/2008 10:57

OOh Beckie I'm so excited, another Beckie and not Becky! My older sister also calls me Bexie, childhood thing I think. Only Mum calls me Rebecca. If anyone alse calls me it I think I'm in trouble in a naughty child way

BexieID · 11/04/2008 10:54

My mum wanted to call me Beckie, but chose Rebecca in case I didn't like Beckie when I was older. I'm generally known as Beckie, Becks, Bexie, Bex, but on official stuff it's Rebecca.

I do call Thomas, Tom. I do get a little annoyed when people call him Tommy. One of the toddler mums asked if I minded Tom, as her son was getting confused with my Thomas and Thomas The Tank Engine, lol.

Enid · 11/04/2008 10:22

I find it impossilbel to call any Julie anythign other than Jules