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ITS OK TO CALL YOUR CHILD THE "SHORT" VERSION OF A NAME - SO BOLLOCKS TO ALL YOU FARKING SNOBS WHO TURN YOUR NOSES UP!

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MamaG · 28/08/2008 14:19

You know who you are!

I did this with DS (as in Archie rather than Archibald - but a completely different name) and MIL in particular went ON and ON about it - the long version of DS's name sounds a tad pompous and I DON'T LIKE IT.

I don't want to hear ANYBODY on MN bleat "oh don't call him Ben, it has to be Benjamin" etc again

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rosealbie · 28/08/2008 15:32

AnnVann, in a case like this, couldn't she just use Victoria on the CV anyway? I think I would and then explain that actually I use Vicky instead.

AnnVan · 28/08/2008 15:29

I do see what you mean about the longer versions sounding old, but there is one practical problem, which a friend of mine encountered. She loved being called Vicki BUT - on CVs etc it's considered bad form to put down a name shortening and unfortunately employers etc assumed that her name was Victoria and she was putting a shortened version on her CV She was considering chnging her name to VIctoria by deed poll purely so she could put it on CVs etc but still go by Vicki in day to day life. Just a thought.

CuckooSplodgeandTubs · 28/08/2008 15:01

Wow take a valium!

Only joking!

I just think that putting Elizabeth on a bc instead of Libby hands back some choice to the child later on, that's all.

NorkyButNice · 28/08/2008 14:47

DS has a shortened name - the long version of his sounds really pompous and DH said it was too posh (fair point).

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MamaG · 28/08/2008 14:43

don't worry frosty! I'll go into full pregzilla mode just before I'm due and INSIST on at least 100 posts on a "wish me luck!" thread

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Gobbledigook · 28/08/2008 14:43

We use long and short version for ds1
Long version only for ds2
Long version only for ds3 (although we call him pet names based on his name)

I go by my shortened version because I always have been but I actually really like the long version of my name too - kind of too late to use it now though.

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Jux · 28/08/2008 14:41

Some names just have to be shortened: Timothy simply cannot be used, for instance, you have to use Tim.

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MamaG · 28/08/2008 14:40

Fimbo - due in 9 weeks.

If I have tgo have a CS (findout next week) he will be born in 8 weeks

If I DON'T have a CS I'll probaly go overdue again so will be 11 weeks until birth!

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Pinkchampagne · 28/08/2008 14:39

Both of my boys have shortened names - the same names as tiredemma's boys as it happens! I love both names, but don't like the longer version of either name though.

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MamaG · 28/08/2008 14:39

Funnily enough, now DS is 4 it doesn't bother me if anybody says "oh is he a [long version]?" as he suits his name.

When he was newborn, I felt fiercely protective over everything, inc his name.

Am more chilled 4 years down teh line!

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Fimbo · 28/08/2008 14:36

How long to go MamaG (more importantly how long do I have to wait for the announcement )

SheSellsSeashellsByTheSeashore · 28/08/2008 14:34

i have a millie rather than amelia. though i wanted amelia it was vetoed by dh and dd1.

dh used to go on about dd1s name a lot. telling me it was a name i had made up so i know how you feel. my nana also told me that she was just going to call her melissa as she couldnt pronounce her name i chose. her name sounds nothing like melissa. she would delibaretly mispronounce her name at first but has given up now. my new fight with her name is over her changing her surname to dh's name if or when he adopts her.

MrsMattie · 28/08/2008 14:34

Sometimes it works. Other time sit just sounds daft (Hattie has to be Harriet, for instance!). Ok, that's just my weird little opinion, but there you go!

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MamaG · 28/08/2008 14:32

(I don't know any female Charlies btw! Or cats called Archie)

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MamaG · 28/08/2008 14:31

No, Cod didn't upset me I was only messing

MIL did though the cowbag

I'll tell baby's name in birth announcement, I vowed NOT to mention it on here first because I'd get all nasty if anybody said they didn't like it! I don't htink anybody is horrid enough to say "congrats on the birth but EW what a horrible name" in a birth announcement!!

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rosealbie · 28/08/2008 14:30

Well, had ds been a girl, he would have been Lottie and not Charlotte.

I totally love shortened names but have said before, that if you like the short name, why bother using the longer name at all?

FluffyMummy123 · 28/08/2008 14:29

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Fimbo · 28/08/2008 14:26

I see. I thought Cod had upset you.

Are you allowing us to know the name you have chosen?

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MamaG · 28/08/2008 14:26

Gingerbear - some long names are lovely - I don't have a problem with giving a long name and then shortening it IYKWIM

e.g. I loved Amelia for a girl, shortened to Milly - I love both names so that would have been happy to use both.

Cod once, about a year ago, said she didn't approve of DS's name so I thought I'd add her to the OP (but I was only messing around really re cod)

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scorpio1 · 28/08/2008 14:26

you need chocolate, lady!

scorpio1 · 28/08/2008 14:25

oh i am v guilty of shortened names - 2 of mine are Jamie & Millie

other one is Reilly