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Okay, ready for this week’s question: Do you have a nickname? If yes, how did you get it?
When my mother was expecting me, she had chosen the name “Martha” for a girl, intending to call me “Marty” for short. My Daddy’s mother pleaded with her to reconsider. Seems she’d had a goat named “Marty” when she was a child. She told Mom that every time she called me “Marty,” she’d envision that pet goat. So Mom relented and named me after a close friend and minister’s wife named Jeanette.
Your turn…
Oddly enough, I do not have a nickname. I guess my dad does have a nickname for me that he used to call me on occasion. Rindabird. One of those parent things, I suppose. I must say it is endearing to hear it come from my Daddy. :)
ReplyDeleteI don't have any nicknames now but had my share when I was growing up. With younger siblings just learning to talk Mary always came out as Moi and I went by that for several years.
ReplyDeleteThere were several others too. Susie, when I was about to get in trouble, and then several creative ones from my brothers.
That's so funny! I'm glad your mom didn't name you after her goat. *grin*
ReplyDeleteI don't really have a nickname, though when I was a kid my uncle called me Bones 'cause I was skinny. :-)
LOL I don't have a nickname now unless you would say "B" as my husband calls me that short for Babe.
ReplyDeleteBut when I was growing up, my dad called me Terrabell. Hated it but he loved it!
Family members vary it...Weetie boo. Wends, Weetie. I think it probably has something to do with me being the youngest and the baby of four girls.
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I love these!
ReplyDeleteI should have added that my granddad called me "RED" on occasion, which I detested.
The only 'nickname' I've had faded long ago but it was deenie weenie. Yuck.
ReplyDeleteI'm like Sherrinda, I don't have a nickname either! The only option would be Mika- and that is absolutely not a choice!
ReplyDeleteMy nickname is: Andee
ReplyDeleteIt is a variation of my name: Andrea and my grandparents began calling me this when I was very young. Some of my family and gradeschool friends still call me Andee.
Blessings, andrea
BTW: It is pronounced: Aundee
Hmm... Because of my double last name, my initials are KGTT. I had a friend in high school call me "Tsquared" because of my final two intials (and the rule in algebra where if two letters are side-by-side, they are multplied). I also had a team call me "Yebo" for a while.
ReplyDeleteIn Africa I have another name--Sibahle Thandaza Kunene. It means "beautiful prayer" (kunene is just a last name). I just go by "Thandaza" because I want people to remember "prayer" more than anything else. To the orphans in Indian I am "Kristen Auntie". And in Central/South America, Kristina. :0)
I have tons of nicknames from my husband..everyone who knows my husband has been given at least one! My #1 all time nickname that he has given me? Drumroll.........Twillypop!!! There's no explanation, he just makes them up and voila! they stick!
ReplyDeleteI don't have a nickname really. Everyone calls me Cindy, though the long version is Cynthia--not too exciting. Hubby and I call the girls Goose and Libster--very silly, but you know the way these names come about usually is :D
ReplyDeleteWhen I was younger, nobody EVER called me Katie. It was always Mac. Last name used to be McGivern and I had about 4 other Katie's in my class and on my sports teams. So it was Mac for me. :)
ReplyDeleteMy hubby calls me Kate, never Katie.
My mom calls me Katie Bug.
Sadly, no nickname, just plain ole karen.
ReplyDeletePeople call me Jennifer--except my hubby started calling me Jenny to be cute within the last year or so(because he knows I don't like it). Then my neighbors and friends caught on and know I'm a big 80's girl and started calling me Jenny, too, because of that song "867-5309 Jenny, Jenny".
ReplyDeleteWell, long story short, I'm only Jenny within a select few and I kind of like it now. LOL
Karen: We need to find you a nickname, girl.
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I don't have a nickname. Open to any thoughts:)
ReplyDeleteBlessings,
Karen
In college, the guys called everyone by their initials. Since I had three (KVB), they called me Kibby.
ReplyDeleteToday, I'm Karin (except when the hubs calls me Honey or Sweetie).
Hi Jen (Marty..heh!heh!),
ReplyDeleteI've had many nicknames: Jillian (no, my name is not Jillian, but I like it!), Jillybean, the Jill-de-beast, and my favorite: Jukie. Don't ask me how I got that one!
Hi Jen -
ReplyDeleteI grew up answering to "Susie." However, as a young adult, I felt this was babyish and insisted on "Sue." That stuck for awhile until I decided my given name, "Susan," was just fine.
Of course, a few people still call me, "Susie and Sue." Also, my Uncle and few select friends have dubbed me, "Suze," (pronounced Sooz).
Wow, I should have used this for one of those "tell us about you" awards. LOL!
Blessings,
Susan (Susie, Sue, Suze)
My husband calls me "Pat." Not too original, huh???
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Pat
My parents told me my names were chosen to avoid the possibility of unkind nicknames. Carol Jean is pretty ordinary and as a little girl I often mourned not having a fancier name. One fall I brought home a Grade 2 report card that had my name as Carolyn and I was severely reprimanded for having "put on airs" by telling my teacher my "real" name. Only I hadn't. The teacher had assumed Carol was a nickname. Fortunately she was quick to apologize (and change it) when she learned of her error.
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Jen:
ReplyDeleteWhen I was learning how to say my name "Cecelia" I must have stopped with the first two syllables,"Cece" out of that came two other closely aligned nicknames.
When I was in 1st grade I had to have my long hair cut. My dad didn't want it cut. My mother followed a doctor's advice and got it cut, in a duck tale cut. When my dad saw it, he said, Compared to how you looked this morning, you look like your grandpa." My dad's dad was named Charles, went by Charlie. And he was almost bald. I think I outgrew that moniker in the 1980's. He would even introduce me as "Charlie."
My childhood nickname came back in my life when I was a freshman in college and the members of the sorority I pledged asked me if they could call me Cece.
Some of my writing group members call me that. They decided to all on their own. I used it online when I first got my computer.
I have a post on my blog about how I tried to give myself the nickname Bazooka when I was 12 (don't ask why). Luckily it didn't stick. In junior high I was stuck with Mona (Mona Lisa) and I still have family and friends from school that call me that.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I don't really have a nickname. As a child I was called Crissie, but that went by the wayside as I grew up. I guess the closest thing to a true 'nickname' would be in high school band I could never stop talking, giggling, or smiling & our band Director nicknamed me Smiley. It stuck. Everytime he'd call me out or something he'd say "Smiley"... so much so that for my birthday one year I got a shirt w/ one of those big yellow smiley faces on the front & the back said Smiley. Didn't help this was the era of Forrest Gump & the smiley face made a big comeback from his T-shirt in the movie when he was running. For a few years there you couldn't NOT see a big yellow smiley face wherever you went...
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