a million years ago I worked for B&Q and we were preparing for a new store.
The admin person who ordered name badges always shortened my name and thought it was funny to tell me she was ordering the shortened version badge for me.
The Chairman was coming to the opening day so I told her. " if you get me a badge with the wrong name on it , it'll not wear it and will make a point of standing close enough to Chairman that he'll notice I'm not wearing a bad, and if he asks, I'll tell him why"
I don't think it's laziness, Ann is often lengthened to Annie In families it's (usually) affectionate, but not acceptable from mere aquaintances
l'm the other way, l've never liked my name and my parents would not allow abbreviation even from family, though I thought it sounded better and friendlier.
What helped a bit was moving 'oop North', which altered the vowel sounds, but then I found l never knew how to pronounce it when introducing myself! Now when l go somewhere new I use the shortened version
I worked with a lot of Australians. If someone had a long name, they would shorten it. If they had a short name, they would lengthen it as in John - Johnno.
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a million years ago I worked for B&Q and we were preparing for a new store.
The admin person who ordered name badges always shortened my name and thought it was funny to tell me she was ordering the shortened version badge for me.
The Chairman was coming to the opening day so I told her. " if you get me a badge with the wrong name on it , it'll not wear it and will make a point of standing close enough to Chairman that he'll notice I'm not wearing a bad, and if he asks, I'll tell him why"
Correct name badge duly arrived.
Well done Hostafan1 !
(see what I did there?
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Is it laziness or "we're all pals together" that seems to cause the abbreviation of names? No doubt you will soon be ST Steve!
I don't think it's laziness, Ann is often lengthened to Annie
In families it's (usually) affectionate, but not acceptable from mere aquaintances
l'm the other way, l've never liked my name and my parents would not allow abbreviation even from family, though I thought it sounded better and friendlier.
What helped a bit was moving 'oop North', which altered the vowel sounds, but then I found l never knew how to pronounce it when introducing myself! Now when l go somewhere new I use the shortened version
Someone I know used to call me Stevie.
A member of the opposite sex Steve
?
Sadly not.
He thought it was endearing, I think.
I worked with a lot of Australians. If someone had a long name, they would shorten it. If they had a short name, they would lengthen it as in John - Johnno.
Law unto themselves, Aussies.