One of our shortlist names is Penelope, which DP and I both like (so nobody tell me it is shit please, that is not what I'm asking ).
DP likes the nn Penny, but I can't seem to warm to it. Not super-keen on any of the other nns I can think of for the name, either. Should I therefore abandon Penelope on grounds that she will inevitably end up called Penny?
I am pretty sure that the answer is yes, and DP definitely thinks that if I can't learn to love Penny we shouldn't take the risk.
However, I do know some people with long names who don't shorten them and never have, and won't hear of it (one of them is called Evangeline, as posted on another current thread, which is what made me think of asking this).
Any thoughts?
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Thoughts on the inevitability of nicknames, esp for longer names?
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DorotheaPlenticlew · 12/02/2010 15:48
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