In most parts of Scotland, if you EVER admitted to not liking being called something to your pals, this would automatically become your name until you die.
I find it very odd people getting touchy about being called by some form of their name they deem as being unacceptable. The people who are saying it are not actually saying your name. They are just making a noise that refers to you. Get over yourself as they say.
Can’t make ‘John’ any shorter. But it’s my middle name, my first name is Andrew. Hate people saying ‘can I call you Andrew?’
Well yes you can but I might not answer
When I was at school there was a pompous kid who insisted he was to be called “Robert” and this was not be shortened in any way. He made the mistake of saying this to our somewhat hippy-ish English Teacher who from then on insisted on calling him “Bobbykins”
Another Steven. Don't mind most shortened forms, but for some reason Steve really grates. I think it's partly a Scottish thing. Steven in Scotland gets shortened to Stevie, not Steve, so Steve just sounds off. In Scotland, with family or playing rugby (back in the day) it was always Stevie, which I like but these days it's mostly just my wife who calls me that! At Uni and in Snowboard/MTB world I somehow ended up with Stevo and I usually go with that most of the time.
The only friend I have that doesn’t have their name shortened is an Adam.
Ads.
My mum said she christened me Adam as she hated names being shortened and this couldn’t be. She clearly hadn’t thought this through. My wife calls me Ads. Some of my mates call me Ads, or occasionally use Adamski.
Since I was at school though (I’m now 50) pretty much everyone calls me Binners, so it’s sort of academic
I hate Murray being shortened to Muz or Muzzer. Mugs is what I answer to.
I don't mind being Mr Murray in muslim countries but it annoys me when people in the UK mistake my first name for a surname.
It also annoys me when people try and spell my middle name as Gary - it's Garry although my primary school teacher marked it wrong in spelling all the time.
Can’t make ‘John’ any shorter.
Jon.
J ('Jay').
It also annoys me when people try and spell my middle name as Gary
Is that a common occurrence? I can count the people who know my middle name on the fingers of one hand let alone those who have cause to spell it. Official bodies like the passport office probably account for the other hand.
It also annoys me when people try and spell my middle name as Gary
No, I'm still mad at my primary school teacher. It's only been 50 years.
I used to work with a girl called Dave. No one could remember her name the first night she worked there so someone called her Dave and it stuck
I worked with a Dave too, her name was Helen...
I’m Stephen, but literally no-one calls me by my full name.
I was always Ste, my Mom and a few older friends still call me that, but I “reinvented” myself at uni as Steve and that’s what the vast majority of people now refer to me as. The occasion Stevo as well, which I quite like.
At uni there were two girls called.lucy in our group. One became Bob but to remove confusion they both then were called Bob. Problem solved by changing one to Lucy Bob.
Robert was always dubbers.
Our babysitter when we were kids was called Tass.
Her actual name was Catherine but when she was born and taken home to her older sister (who was only a toddler herself, just learning to talk), she couldn't pronounce Catherine and it became Tassin, later just Tass. She was always known as Tass from then on.
My sister, when she was at uni, shared a house with a Kathryn and rather than it being shorted to Kat / Katie / Kath / Kathy, she was known as Thryn which is the only time I've ever heard that. I know of a Ryn though.
Arsene ****horpe?
She was always known as Tass from then on.
Funny how names stick, isn't it. A lad at work is known as "briefcase," because he brought a briefcase into work.
Once.
Over ten years ago.
I’m fine with mine except when mates call out to me in busy public places.
