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Tatiana?

11 replies

MeantToStopAtTwo · 09/06/2011 14:48

What do you think? I would consider using 'Tatty' for short.

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NadiaWadia · 09/06/2011 15:14

Well Tatiana is a nice-sounding name, but you do know the slang meaning of 'tatty', right? (shabby, basically).

Renaissance227 · 09/06/2011 15:18

Quite a nice name. I know a couple of Tatianas who are Russian and am not keen on the shortened version, but at least is is unusual. Smile

BeeBopBunny · 10/06/2011 08:40

I know a Tatiana - everyone calls her Tanya.

GwendolineMaryLacey · 10/06/2011 08:50

Name is fine, the diminutive is Tanya isn't it? Tatty is horrible.

MrsOzz · 10/06/2011 09:14

It reminds me of a Russian porn star. But it IS a nice name!

SloganLogan · 10/06/2011 21:15

Tatiana is nice.

Tatty is slang for potato (as in tatties and neeps with haggis!)

MrsSchadenfreude · 10/06/2011 21:58

Only the very best people are called Tatyana. The correct abbreviation is Tanya. NOT TATTY!

MrsSchadenfreude · 10/06/2011 21:59

And if you are in the saaf east, it will become Ta' or Ta'y, innit?

pinkthechaffinch · 10/06/2011 22:31

nice name

you could use Tina as a diminutive

Hannah31 · 10/06/2011 22:32

Surely you can abbreviate it however you want? We have Jemima, who we call Momo - or is that wrong? I like Tatty!

5DollarShake · 10/06/2011 23:23

I used to go to school with a very pretty, diminutive, blonde girl called Catherine and her nn was Tatty.

Agree with Hannah31 - you can use whatever nickname you want.

What about Titania - has a nice, Shakespearean ring to it.

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