Nicknames seem to change with age and circumstances, at least mine have. Most people call me Bill, and have since high school, but a couple other nicknames still are used by certain people. When I was little, everyone called me "Billy", and in fact some folks still do (including one of my high school classmates who lives in TV). In Junior High (remember, before it was called "Middle School"?) we took a class in French, and we all had to use a French translation of our names in class, so mine was Guillaume. Friends from that class started calling me "Guilley" and many still do. In college, we all put our names on our dorm room doors so the RA's could learn them more easily, and for whatever reason, I just used my initial instead of my full nickname of Bill. So many friends from the college days still call me just "B." That's probably my favorite nickname, and in fact I tend to sign most correspondence...........
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