I havea short name, please stop shortening it!

[idontlikealdi]

I have a simple, easy, nice five letter name. Complete randoms at work shorten it to a two letter name. This is starting to increasingly get on my nerves.

Close friends call me the shortened version, and not even all the time.

WIBU to tell ask them to call me by name?

DD has a short name 4 letters, we thought no one will ever shorten it. They don't , but we didn't bank on it being lengthened !!!! Anything from 6 letters to 10 letters!

sonly my lot would have that lengthened to 'yernameisdeborah,deborah,itneversuitedyah' then after a few years of that you'd be DebbieoffPulp. They are lovely really

Yep. I feel your pain. I have a four letter, two syllable name,which people regularly shorten to the equivalent of one letter

Me too. I even receive texts/emails using just that letter (the second letter in my name) to address me.

I have a nine letter name which is shortened to a four letter name. I have always been known by the four letter version.

However there are people who shorten it to two letters. Those that do this get called Betty.

As in, if I can call you Betty, you can call me Al. Courtesy of Paul Simon's song. [Smile]

People shorten my name and it drives me insane. Even worse when they think I'm unreasonable and precious for pointing it out!

I hope none of you move to Liverpool - everyone I know gets called by a different name its a sign of affection - except my daughter who has a deliberate three letter one syllable name. Which I lengthen!! But only one or two people do.

I don't get this and think it's very precious, sorry...

it goes 'I prefer to be called x, thank you' with a smile. Any decent human will go 'ok, no worries'.

repeat for those who are indecent, stupid or hard of listening.

Sorry OP but this made me think of my mothers aunt and made me smile. Lovely lady from the east end - everybody in the family's name got shortened to ONE syllable.

Growing up i never knew who she was on about!

Al
Mal
Bal
Lal
Dol
Sal
Lil

YABU, of course you are.

Long names are shortened, short names are lengthened.

It's the law.

When I worked nights shelf stacking my nickname was Ting Ting because I was always saying "that's not my name"
They lengthen mine though like Cath to Cathy (that's not my name though) I hate it, DH and my Dad call me it, everyone else can nob off.

fluffyraggies my great gran had a sister called Francis, a sister called Cecily and one called Elizabeth, she called them all 'our sis' no-one ever knew which one she meant.

I've heard my DiL call her DD by just the initial of her Christian name. For instance K instead of Kayleigh. Nothing to do with me but why call her 'Kayleigh' and not use it?

All my dc have names that can't really be shortened or messed about. So their friends either lengthen them or call them something completely banal.

My DD has a name that can't be shortened so people lengthen it (bit like the Ben example above - Benjie, Benny, Benjamin).

I have a short 2 syllable name, which gets shortened in soooo many different ways, I can't keep up with who calls me what!

My bloody name gets lengthened! It's infuriating! People just can't help themselves and have to add an -a to the end

Haha I have a five letter name that sounds exactly the same if you shorten it to two letters.....so people lengthen it to say my name twice instead.

People are strange but it's quite funny that they make such a meal out of my name :)

I have a 3 letter name, it's often lengthened!! You just can't win

My name is 4 letters and 2 syllables ending in a. People leave the a off to shorten it and it drives me nuts. I just say the a after they have said it. It doesnt work but makes me feel better

Only my mum's allowed to mess with my name as she named me lol.

Anyone else trying to guess people's names now?

Yes, Lisa/Anna, I am!

I love it when my name gets shortened. It's a 6 letter name, which although super popular now, was quite unusual when I was born.

For some reason it's not a name people shorten naturally so only very close family and friends use the short version. It's also not the sort of short version you'd ever introduce yourself by (not like 'hi i'm Jo' for Joanna) If someone I've just met uses the short version I immediately warm to them. I am also guilty of giving everyone I love nicknames. I'm with the Mitford sisters when it comes to nicknames (the more loosely related to the given name the better) I wouldn't do it to a stranger or loose acquaintance though...

I have never understood why some people can get so upset by this.

Personally, I don't care what I'm called, even if it's a completely different name to my proper name, I just answer to it :-)

I like my full name and if people shorten it I tend to launch Into a story of how at 3 I told my mum (apparently I was a horrid toddler) that my name was x and not y and would only answer to that.

Then they just use my full name, I suspect just to avoid me telling the story again.

It's actually proved pretty useful at work as most people use y and it's a pretty common name so in 3 of the schools I have worked in it has been an easy way to identify which one of us you are taking about.

I am called Anne. My exH calls me Ann to annoy me. Sometimes he even calls me An. I can tell.
(He's a bastard)

I lengthen everyone's name. I call my nephew (Theo)dopolopadas. You'd hate me lol. To me it's a term of endearment.