I'm sure she'll appreciate your efforts. It's a bit different from the guy diving off cliffs etc. to deliver a box of chocolates. (Showing my age there).
Perhaps I should have thought about people shortening my name before I chose it!! Would much prefer HG or Weed rather than Hog!! As I have a short real name (you mean you didn't realise Hogweed is a pseudonym?) I find some people put an -io on the end of it. As a PS, I worked with a bloke from Birmingham once who shortened everyone's name down to one syllable - Bri, Yve (Yvonne), Is (Isabel) etc. Very strange!
'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
My mum spelt my name without an "e", as she didn't want people to be able to shorten it (no, me neither). Needless to say l have spent most of my life saying "Annwithoutane", having it spelt incorrectly, or being called Annie. My darling husband, when l told him this, began addressing me as "A", therefore shortening my name after all. Bless him, how l laughed.....
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As a PS, I worked with a bloke from Birmingham once who shortened everyone's name down to one syllable - Bri, Yve (Yvonne), Is (Isabel) etc. Very strange!