My maternal grandmother tried very hard to pick names that wouldn't engender nicknames. Somehow most of her children had a nickname. Most were benign like RD but one was especially interesting. My uncle Walter got his nickname because a little neighbor boy couldn't say Walter. He called my Woggie. That was occasionally shortened to Wog. My uncle Carson was known as Cork.
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Date: 2010-03-11 05:18 pm (UTC)I'm glad I avoided the nickname game.