It's Alfie, NOT Archie!

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Calling all Alfie mums! Is it just me or do you get people calling your son Alfie, 'Archie' from time to time? Perhaps the names just sit together on a little shelf in the same part of their brains somewhere.

If you called them by their proper names, Archibald and Alfred, there wouldn't be this problem

Fashion, do you suppose most parents of Archies even know it's short for Archibald? Alfred isn't quite as unknown.

Or known as archum barchum, arch, and Archie barchie in the larchie, and archum

I'm not sure if DS's new little friend is Alfie or Archie! sorry! I will find out (slyly) as soon as I can and wont risk using either till then

As a teacher, I oftenhave problems remembering the name 'Sharpie' which seems to be the generic name given round here to a permenent marker.

For some reason I always find myself calling them a Stiffie

outmonday - My Archie is an Archibald really, but i only ever call him that on very rare occasions. I'd like to think that most people know that Archie is short for Archibald, but maybe i'm just being naive there?

My Archie was almost an Archer rather than Archibald but ended up being just Archie although often gets Arch now too. I'm sure it wasn't a popular name when we chose it, I hadn't heard of a single one. DH actually suggested it as a joke to take the mickey out of another name I was considering. As in 'that's almost as bad as something like Archie!' I do agree though that Archie and Alfie then suddenly seemed to get popular around the same time- after DS was born so everyone must have copied me lol!

When my Ds Alfie was small some one misheard his name as Humphrey. It has stuck and 13 years later it still makes my friends and me howl (after a few drinks)

I have a Catrin who is called mostly Caitlyn, often Catherine, and also Katrina and Catrine. Nobody can spell it unless I go to Wales, and often assume it's French! I wouldn't mind so much but we're in the west country, hardly far from Wales!

Yahoo! and their soap round up always refer to Alfie as Archie...I thought this thread was about that.