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KayTheCurler

KayTheCurler

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We have a family gathering coming up. Casual interactions over two days ending with a meal We have booked locations and a catered meal. There will likely be about 30 of us, ranging in age from 2 -84. .
One grandson is called Nick. A grandaughter is married to a Nick. A grandkid from far away plans to travel along with two friends. . They are both called Nick. This should be fun.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Number them as they arrive. Nick 1, 2, 3 and 4. My son was supposed to be a Nicholas. Even I call him Nick.
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In the proper Nick of time? Some say niche to allow for the mental category ... that's imperative ...

Mental matter really confuses those that do not even believe in such process ... thus it lags like in latency ... it just follows and some are not there yet ... and we wonder when they'll ever ...
 
A librarian told me about helping a youngster fill out an application for a library card. The child said her name was Amy . The librarian asked her how she spelled it - Amy, Aimy, Aymee, Aimee etc................
 
KayTheCurler said:
A librarian told me about helping a youngster fill out an application for a library card. The child said her name was Amy . The librarian asked her how she spelled it - Amy, Aimy, Aymee, Aimee etc................
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LOL. We have several staff at work with variations of Caitlyn, Caitlin, Katelyn, and so on. I swear every one uses a slighly different spelling. Seems to be a common name in younger millennials and Gen Z, which is the age range for most of these staff.
 
paradox3 said:
There's also Meghan/ Megan with other variations and at least two different pronunciations.
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Yeah, I've hit that one before. And Stephen/Steven though I don't think there are any other variations on that one other than shortening it to "Steve".
 
I like creative name spelling. If I had to write it down I’d ask the person or look it up (looked up how to spell Ally Sheedy last night for example). If you have a few people in a group with different spellings of the same name it can help to differentiate which one is being referred to.

It’s been happening since antiquity, when illiterate priests misspelled surnames on baptismal certificates. Think of all the different spellings of the same surnames. If changed just to be different, that’s alright, no?

(Members of Radiohead are Thom and Jonny instead of Tom and Johnny. Interesting quirk about them.)
 
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Mendalla said:
Yeah, I've hit that one before. And Stephen/Steven though I don't think there are any other variations on that one other than shortening it to "Steve".
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There's also Stephan/ Stefan which I think is the same name in another language.
 
Peter, Pierre, Pedro

Did we ever play this game with Crazyheart? It would have been right up her alley!
 
Given the importance of St. Peter, there's versions of it in almost every Western language, Not sure where it falls on the most common names list, but it must be up there, eh. Once you start looking at forms of names in other languages (vs. variant spellings in English) there's lots of interesting places to go.

I know that Thomas is Tuomas in Finnish because my favourite metal songwriter is Tuomas Holopainen (and there's a terrific guitarist named Tuomas Wainola, too). And, again, it's a name that has counterparts in most Western languages.
 
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