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Nicknames for elisabet - would isabel be far fetched? What else?

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Threebooks · 10/10/2015 12:15

dd1 is called elisabet (dutch heritage). Would it be odd or fine to nickname her isabel? Living in an English speaking country, we were daft to go with the European spelling of Elisabet and are constantly running into problems in terms of how people pronounce and spell her name.
What other nicknames would work? Thanks

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PallasCat · 11/10/2015 13:17

Elisabet is a great name - like everyone else seems to be saying anyway, I think you've a huge range of choices for nicknames, without going to what seems like a different name in English, even though I'm aware they have related origins.

I LOVE all the following...
Lissa
Lisbet
Bet/Bette/Betty
Libby
Beth
Bess
Bea
Betsy
Litsa
Ella
Etta
Elsie

Parpaltunnel · 11/10/2015 19:39

The best thing about Elisabet is the huge array of lovely nn options available, so I'm with the other posters that Isabel is unnecessary. Elisa, Betsy, Betty, Libby, Elsie, Elsa, Ellie... hmm. Might add Elisabet to our shortlist, actually!

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