Quote Originally Posted by Demeter
lol birdgirl- that sounds like my students now. They get frustrated with some of the quirks in English and want me to make everything logical, yet when I start to explain the origins of the language, they say " okay miss, never mind!"
I'll bet you were Shirley Temple cute but too smart for your own good when you were little (still are). I was that way too. My poor mother!
My name is one of those that when some people hear it, they immediately assume I am okay with any form of shortened nickname attached to it "So do you go by - or - or....?" Nope, you have to say the whole thing. Four syllables means you really care
Oh golly, my mom is like that. If you don't say her whole name, she simply won't answer you. But my youngest daughter's name (yours) does really lend itself to shortening. She goes by the common derivative, because it's something she can wrap her Elmer Fudd tongue around.

I was called by my middle name for most of my life. When I decided to start going by my first name, my aunt stopped speaking to me. I still don't know what that's all about. You'd think she would be used to people being persnickety about their names.