I havea short name, please stop shortening it!

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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?

I'm Sara. Various folk have called me Sa (sair), Saz, Sal, Sally (last 2 are recognised, old-fashioned diminutives), Sassa, Sarey - sigh, they spell it Sarah too - my parents' fault I suppose.

I only answer to Sara(h)

wellwellwell one your guesses is correct

I'm very careful with people's names. I call them by the name they're introduced with. If I notice someone else calling them by another name I'll ask which they prefer. If I ask and they specify, or if they say they don't mind Cath or Catherine but hate Cathy then I'll take that on board.

Mil lengthens both my dd's names. Not by giving them a 'proper' name instead of a 'nickname'. Not by adding a y to it. But by sticking 'our' in front. Ourlauren and Ourjasmine*.

Gives. Me. The. Rage.

*names changed to protect the guilty.

I'm known by my first initial. Family, friends, even my boss calls me it. I like it. I like that everyone has a special name for me «precious»

There's a fair few Emma's on here, lol

I may have five letters on my BC, but if you use them all l will assume you are talking to someone else.

I have no idea why my parents put them there as they never used them (except to shout up the hall when I was in touble).

Correctinag people politely is fine, I have had to do it ocationally (as I say, I simply won't turn round if someone uses my full name).

But, please don't explode if it's a genuine mistake. It doesn't make you look professional if you snap, when called the standard shortening of your name totally in error.

I've known my cousin rather longer than I have known you and she made the opporsite choice the day she started school.

Sorry awful spelling.

I also have a 5 letter, 2 syllable name. It can't be shortened, unless you want to refer to me as a mode of transport. So some people take the first two letters and then add the letter Z! WTF?!

My husband doesn't respond well to shortening his name. His name is similar to Johnathon/John in that it's a name people shorten whether you like it or not. Depending on how well he knows you, he'll either call you a rude word, or a totally random name. When they comment, he'll either be nice about it, or rude about it.

It's just his "thing".

Meerkat - one of my guesses is my name too!

My DS's short, 4-lettered name is lengthened. By us.

Someone I know called their son Lee, "because it can't be lengthened or shortened, he'll always just be Lee" however, within a year she was calling him by a nickname based on something he did...by the time he started at school he was "Lee, known as Nickname" and has been known by that name ever since (oh and the nickname gets shortened all the time too). Umm, fail?

I'm a Jacqueline never Jackie. Despite repeatedly being told until I gave up trying my MIL still calls me Jackie and introduces me as Jackie so her friends obviously do too. If someone called out jackie in the street i wouldnt even pick up on it to turn round as IT'S NOT MY NAME never has been and never will be.

i also get asked to spell it at least a couple of times a week and have done for the last 35 years if ever I cant be found on an electronic database such as bank/ doctor etc it's because the operator cant spell my name. Common attempts include:

Jacklyn
Jackline
Jacqline

Oddly, I have a long name and am always known as a short version of it (not hard to guess what it is!) but I really couldn't care less what people call me.
I did give all my DCs short names though cos filling in forms with a long name is a PITA.

Hello Caz
My birth name has 7 letters and is only used by the bank
Most people call me by a name with four letters 2 syllables
Work and my best mate call me by my intitials.
DS2 has always had a short version of his name / think
Benny/Benjamin I d

I have a 4 letter name and it is shortened to 1 letter! DD is called Dawn and she is often called Dawny.

I don't think people are talking about him when they use his full name!

I have a two syllable name with no real shortening but it doesn't stop people. Sarah becomes Sair - ugly IMO. But no biggie really.

My kids both have names with LOTS of accepted and pretty shortenings though!

Meh I have a 5-letter, one syllable first name so people change my surname instead Not so much as I hurtle towards 50

Tell them in a nice,non-huffy way.