Abbreviating names on Gransnet

Aww shucks thanks ella

Our French teacher at school was nicknamed "Smellie"

With love though smol

ella renamed me smellie

That's fine glass, someone called me mal which took a moment to get but I don't mind at all as long as you are not unpleasant in the message.

moo I have been tempted to shorten your name a few times but it doesnt quite roll off the tongue

Well no-one has shortened me to "moo" yet which, I think, is good?

I like being called Nina here.

It's my abbreviation of one of my real names. The name I'm known by in the real world cannot be shortened.

Absent Utrecht eh? just a stones throw from Notts then...

It can cause a bit of a problem! I was confused with Hunter F and asked if I had had a sex change. Someone said the other day that Hunt was kind . She meant Hunter F and for a moment I thought,'' How nice, but how does she know I'm kind?''

My name is a one syllable job so never got shortened!

My real name cannot be shortened.

However I was once called peton here and quite liked it.

DD has the same name as me but she shortened it to three letters as soon as she could talk. DS has DH's middle name as his name and insisted on using the shorter version. Nobody calls them by their given names now.

I get called number on every forum I go on, so nothing new in it getting shortened on here. I`ve always been called by my middle name, but both my Christian names have only 4 letters, so hard to shorten.

specki4eyes Utrecht and then Putney.

There are some names which just do sound more friendly when shortened, aren't there? Kate, for instance, or Kathy, sounds softer and less formal than Katherine.

I went through a rather prissy stage in my early twenties when I thought it was a bit disrespectful to shorten someone's name until I found that a friend just hated me calling her Janet and much preferred 'Jan'.

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I like people shortening my name, it sounds more friendly.

or2 Sorry, couldn't resist

Absent that's funny, my father used to call people "Doings" when he couldn't remember their names - he was from Nottinghamshire - I always assumed it was a Notts habit - where did your father originate?

I chose my DS name with the intention of using the shorter version when he was older and I cant bring myself to shorten it

I have never had any problem with people shortening my real name.

ano What is it with fathers? Don't you love them?

My mother always insisted that my name shouldn't be shortened by anyone and then in her sixties she started shortening it herself! I felt like some one quite different

In 'real life' I use my middle name anyway. I really don't mind what abbreviations people use on here. My father in law used to call me 'Fruit' very often when we first met! Now that is a bit weird!