Did you (do you) have a nickname and how

[Talk Host]

My parents never allowed my brother and I to have nicknames. Their position was that they selected our names for a reason and we should use them.

Everybody else, it seems, had a nickname.

Did you? Do you now. How did it come to be?

JLK

[graciegirl]

My parents never allowed my brother and I to have nicknames. Their position was that they selected our names for a reason and we should use them.

Everybody else, it seems, had a nickname.

Did you? Do you now. How did it come to be?

JLK

Not even....say like Jannie from your grandparents?????

[bandsdavis]

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...........

B.

[Talk Host]

A guy I use to work with, who is now Vice President of Time Warner has always liked to talk. (sometimes too much and sometimes nothing of importance came out)

When he was a little kid, everybody called him"motor mouth" That was later shortened to "motor". Everybody, and I mean everybody now addresses this guy as "motor."

[pauld315]

A guy I use to work with, who is now Vice President of Time Warner has always liked to talk. (sometimes too much and sometimes nothing of importance came out)

When he was a little kid, everybody called him"motor mouth" That was later shortened to "motor". Everybody, and I mean everybody now addresses this guy as "motor."

Jan, you know I am from the same area as well. I have known Motor for years. He has a brother they call Mokey but I have no idea how he got that nickname.

[pauld315]

The nickname my sister and brother use on me once in a while is Lou. When we were kides, we used to reverse our names so my nickname back then was Luap. They shortened it to Lou over the years.

[Talk Host]

Jan, you know I am from the same area as well. I have known Motor for years. He has a brother they call Mokey but I have no idea how he got that nickname.

Isn't that nickname "MOOKEY" MOO like a cow.

[rhsgypsylady]

When we were yet small tots and my younger brother was beginning to learn how to talk, he could not say my name – Debbie; therefore, he called me “Bibbi”.

When we became teenagers, he called me a different name. You know how brothers like to aggravate sisters (more so in their teenage years). Well, mine was no different. Even though I go by Debbie, my real name is Deborah. So he graduated from calling me “Bibbi” to calling me “De-Bra”. As you know, “de” is the prefix for remove or take off. He thought, especially when his or my friends were around, this was cool and would say it with emphasis as in “De-BRA”. There were times I wanted to punch his lights out. :boxing2:

Now that we’re grown up and much, much, much older, he simply calls me “Sister”.

My son has always and still does call me “Mother”.

My husband calls me “Mama”.

And now with Internet, Face book, E-Mail, Twitter, etc., I use aliases.

So the conclusion is – What’s in a name you ask? In response, I would have to say anything goes.

[Skip2MySue]

When I was a little tyke my Grandmother nick named me Skipper which was probably because I was always skipping from one place to the next. (Never was into boating). Because my given name is Harry I much preferred Skipper which as the years moved on was shortened to Skip. 64 have passed and the majority of people call me Skip. Being the Plant Manager for a manufacturing company has given the the people I manage the opportunity to shorten that to Sh-t Head, probably:a20:
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