General Chat

We are about the only people who call our daughter by her given name. Everyone else uses a version of it. We gave our son a short name so it wouldn't get shortened and then at primary school it got lengthened.

Our father used to call my brother George (not his name) and he often called me Mrs Fanackapan - where on earth did that come from?

Gracie Fields, she did a song about Fred Fanackapan.

No, I don't know why I know that either.

Sharon, you are a mine of knowledge :-D

Have to go and do other things now but I'll look that song up later.

you can't mess around with Ann much!! in school I was Golly due to my very curly hair - probably a racist slur these days :-D

I prefer Rose or Rosie ( for family and close friends it has always been Rosie), to Rosemary but what really narked me for years was the person who always wrote Rosy, when she knows it is Rosie.

I try not to shorten people's names unless they have said it's ok to do so. :-)

My daughter was named Debra( Debra Paget)Jean(after her mum) Caron( Leslie Caron)

caused a few arguments when she started school, and the teachers insisted that she couldn't spell Deborah and Karen, correctly..........

Ann, my sister is called Anne-Marie. Our brothers called her Anne-Murud, (which she hated), so she became just 'Anne'.

Me, I am just big about the Rs.

Difficult to shorten mine and have rarely been called Annie. :-)

Only a few call me Emms which I don't mind at all..

An elderly (deceased) relative was called Beatrice Lavinia.

Her sister used to call her, and encourage others too, to shout out

Beetroot and Vinegar!

:-D :-D :-D

Everyone calls me 'Chris' except for my Mum who uses 'Christine' when talking to people who don't know me so they know I am female.

OH once ordered flowers over the phone for me and addressed the card to 'Chris'. The assistant, being very PC, asked when would HE be in to receive them, he replied SHE will be in xxx.

So perhaps my Mum has a point :-D

If someone calls me 'Christine' it reminds me of school and having, probably. done something wrong :-(

Chris

Mum was named Alice but always known as Ann. except dad called her Lou :-S

I am Barbara Ann and my dad and my husband were the only ones to ever call me Babs, which I loved. I am now known as just Barb and that is fine by me :-D

grand dad Robert........"Mike"

dad Robert..........Boy
me Robert......professor

I answer to all sorts but much prefer nothing rude :-P

Dogs are funny though. I once demonstrated to my kids that you can call a dog all sorts of horrible names in a soft and sweet tone and they react to the tone rather than the names called.

Call me horrible ( :-D ) but I found it interesting.

A rose by any other name ... and all that.

You Tinker :-D ;-)

I'm Lynda with a Y, and I have to point it out every time I have to give my name.

I can't blame my parents - the registrar put it on my birth certificate, and my Dad didn't notice :-(

Don't know which one to blame, but it's nice to be a little bit different ;-)

Mind you, I've noticed that I'm not the only Lynda the boards :-D

Speaking of dogs...

...that is probably because dogs do not understand the English (or any other) language. Otherwise they would speak.

Barb, my great aunt was called Alice - until she met her future husband, Len.
Everyone thought they were two peas in a pod, so she was called Nel(l).

No-one told me this, she'd always been Auntie Nell to me, so I spent a time looking for the birth of a Nellie, Ellen, Helen etc :-S

I also have a g great aunt who was christened Etheldreda. Always known as Bella!
She was easier to fid, as she was with her family on the 1881 census.

One of my g granddads was a pain - in fact he and 2 of his 3 bothers were. He was christened Giffard - but was Sidney on his marriage certificate, child's birth certificate, and death certificate.
HIs brother Ivor was known as Frank, brother Sylvanus - Hector. Ernest kept his name, as did their sister, Beatrice.

Some dogs learn to understand an impressive number of words, as .
A gifted border collie, Rico,
mastered the names of more than 200 objects using a technique
called fast-tracking that small children also employ, :-D