lolo as a nickname for charlotte

[PearlFawn]

What are your thoughts?

Lolly!!!?

“Oh go on: lick me!” 🍭 😛

Please NO!

Harlo sounds like Harlot with a silent French t

As a Charlotte, I am called Char-Lo by my parents. Maybe that's an option?

Nicknames and diminutives are different things. Diminutives are a shortened form of the given name. Nicknames don’t have to have any connection with the given name at all. They’re often developed because of a feature or job, like ‘Spanners’ for a plumber, or ‘Titch’ for a very tall person.

Like the (maybe apocryphal) story about the actress Jean Harlow meeting Margot Asquith (wife of the then British Prime Minister) and addressing her as if her name was pronounced "Margotte" instead of "Margo".
"Oh no", said Margot Asquith, "the 'T' is silent, as in 'Harlow' ".

And, yes, Calliopespa, it does sound as if it’s short for Lolita which, as you say, was "a disturbing story about a pervert and a young girl".
In fact, I think the first few lines of Lolita involved the name:
"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita."

Yes, that's what I read, because you posted Iolo, not Lolo.
I thought you wanted the former (eye-oh-lo).

She’s not a little girl. You choose to see it as vulgar, she sees it as coming from a well known story by Rummer Golden, and meaning small or tiny, which it does.
Wind your neck in.

Yes it’s tricky because I always think that passage is vile in its sentiments yet at the same time a particularly brilliant passage of writing. And I can tell ( and sympathise!) that you couldn’t resist quoting it, because it is fantastic.

I always want to use it to show my dcs the power of alliteration, but I think they will understand that before they are old enough for Nabokov!

I believe you mean Rumer Godden? (Who did not have a nickname suggesting she was a drunk.) Perhaps you might wind your own neck in . . . . And yes, to turn a pretty name like Charlotte into something sounding like vulgar baby talk is indeed very very sad.

No. No.

from a Charlotte

Mint went from Lottie, to Lottie loo-loo to loo. I now call her loo. Or Charlie

@Bookishnerd you can change your vote after can’t you?

She cant just invent herself a nickname. That's not how they work. Is she just just to announce to her friends to call her LoLo.

Besides LoLo is absolutely ridiculous.

Lollie...?

I read it as 'yolo' as iolo is a Welsh name

I'm puzzled by all the pearl clutching about Lolo and the far fetched association with Lolita.

Lolita is a pet name/ diminutive for Lola, with an A, which itself is a pet name for Dolores.

Despite the Nabokov book, there are hundreds of thousands of Lolas in English speaking countries, and even children's books with Charlie and Lola as main characters.

A fine example of a reductio ad absurdum.

That 'lollipop' syllable sounds in my accent like the teletubby Lala. Not quite but close enough.

I think the Low low sound would be a lot easier to say. The Loh loh sound lends itself too easily to 'lolly'. Which isn't bad, per se.

Lolo is a great nickname...for a dog.
For a human teenager? Not so much.

I think it is that pronunciation that might be making you feel differently.

Lolo ( when not pronounced Lala) has different auditory references, lots of which sound like a pet or plaything, as well as things like “ Go-go girls” etc. I think that’s exactly why Nabokov chose Lolo and Lolita. She was his pet. Yes, it’s technically short for Delores , but the book isn’t titled “Delores”by Vladimir Nabokov because that’s not the vibe he was seeking. Nor is op’s dd seeking to connect it with Delores.

And yes, lolo also lends itself easily to Lolly, which - possibly explaining some of the breast connections - is something you suck and lick. Nabokov was quite brilliantly dark - and I think your pearls are being a bit neglected on the clutching front! Then again, I can see the accent makes a difference: a tele-tubbyish Lala pronunciation produces a different effect entirely ( though do you also say “ga-ga girls?!”)

Exceptionally contrived.