to flinch and want to stick hot coals where the sun don't shine when women call their husbands by their surname with a 'Y" on the end?

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As in 'Jonesy' 'Clarky' 'Thorpy' I could continue ad nauseam

He is not a 16 year old on the rugby field and you are not his chum

He is an adult
You are his wife/partner .....grrrrr

Yanbu.

And I remember register in state school being done by surname. Also state school, and I am 35. Our head insisted that everyone stand up when he entered the room. Twat.

uh, is this a class thing or summat?
not once have i heard any woman do this.

Someone I know has only ever referred to her partner by his nn (surname plus Y) so I don't actually know his real name. I've only met him a couple of times and feel a proper charlie calling him by a nickname which presumably his close friends and family use.

My DH calls me by an abbreviation of my maiden name with a y on the end WTF? I hate it.

He was/is not a rugby player (footballer!) and did not go to a public or even a private school. Infact, he was not brought up in the UK.

Even our DC think it's strange, but he thinks it's a term of endearment

A friend of mine calls her husband by his surname with an S on the end. She does fit the home counties/horsy profile but I love her anyway.

Mind you, dh and I never ever ever call each other by our first names. It just sounds weird.

Is 'im indoors any better?

It would be confusing with the sort of surname that could end up being an adjective

For instance

Springy
Summery
Wintery
Coppery
Silvery
Goldy

And what do you do with names that already end in y? Do they then become, for instance

Baileyey

No, you're right. The whole thing is fraught with difficulty. We should just call them all Lambchops instead.

How do I go on then, our surname ends with a Y.
My hubby knocks the Y off for my nickname!

It's "babe" than I can't stand, my sister and brother inlaw call each other babe.

Hah!

I used to call DP by his surname (because everybody did, yes he went to boarding school) but with no y - and I stopped when I got PG because it had gone FAR ENOUGH.

All our old friends had a hissy fit though and refused to recognise his real name. It has taken them a year to get over it.

YABU does it really matter? my OH is Phil and i call him Phillyfonk. dont know why but i just do it. dd2 has started to do it aswell.

omg omg i do - this hangs my head in shame and prepares for the hot coals.

I promise I will never ever ever do this again.

I do live in the home counties and could do with a tennis instructor on the side though

I sometimes call dh hubby, not often. He calls me 'the wife', when talking about me which i dont mind and actually find it endearing. dh also has a nickname that some of his friends only know him by but i dont call him that. Bil often gets the 'er' treatment at the end of his surname name but not 'y'.

oh and 'babe' is something that we call eachother most of the time. ds started to call dh this, so i have to say "no, thats daddy."

lights fire

prepares arse with vaseline

We actually have friends (as in a couple) and the wife actually calls her DH his nickname that we all call him. I find it really weird. They have DCs too so they'll hear her calling him that IYSWIM. They were friends for years before they got together though so that might be why.

But they're happy with it so it's fine I guess.

infact 'babe' might surpass even 'Baggy' for boak i ness

We use 'babe', it think that's an age thing though. Most of our generation do- early 20s.

it equates with high fiving

The footballers thing - like Giggsy - always make me laugh; I like to amuse myself by referring to Beckhamy and Rooney-y and Ronaldo-y and Adebayory
(not the same thing I know)
(I'll get me coat)

Love this thread! I do call DH hubby - but only when I'm writing in facebook or suchlike. Never when speaking - it sounds so elderly!

I do call him 'hun', as in short for honey - but it's a joke following on from years ago when I went away for a couple of days and he told me to make a list of DIY stuff that I'd like him to do while I was gone. It was a looong list, and he laughed and said I must like melons, it was a honeydew (honey - do) list!

I call my DH by his nickname that he got at Uni as that is how we were introduced. It is NOT his surname with a 'y' on the end, just a regular bloke's name (which is not his!). Now some of his friends, plus all my friends call him by his nickname and his family and the rest of his friends call him by his actual name. Caused no end of confusion at our wedding as no-one knew who anyone else was talking about!

It was a looong list, and he laughed and said I must like melons, it was a honeydew (honey - do) list!

I had to read this three times before I got it

mmmcoffee that is GREAT

dp gets called 'babycakes' but that is not meant in the sickly sweet way it is in the ironic way as intended by the names founder!

I was at school (state not boarding, I hasten to add) with DH and his nickname at school was --y so that's what I called him until we started going out.
Then people used to ask me who I was talking about