Nicknames

[ashadelic.livejournal.com]

A reply I made in a post before got me to thinking-- I have a nickname for nearly every person of significance in my life, and have since I was little. Nicknames intrigue me almost as much as real names, so I thought I'd share some nicknames of people in my life past and present and hopefully find some interesting stories from you all. Here they are!

My nicknames past/present:
ReRe, Ash, Ash-o-li, Andy, Ashy, Ash-head, Assy, Crashly, Dink, Ink Dink, Dinkster, Inky Dinky Do, Sis, Sister Sue, Leelee, Turdhead(that one's from my grandpa--there's a nice story about it in my personal journal around December 5th last year)

Nicknames I have given:
Lindsey: Ging
Casey: Cake-ee
Erica: Urk
Katie: Katie Kat
Josh: Dosh
Nick: Nickoli
Izrael: Izo


Other nicknames of people I know:
Stephanie: Zippity*
Jennifer: Ferfer*
Emily: Emmy/ Emmaweewee*
Elyse: Weezy*
Stacia: Stay-uh*
Angie: Gigi*
Jessica: JP
Samantha: Sambo
Micah: Mikey
Anthony: Anto

*denotes people I currently work with at a preschool, hence the childish nature of most of the nicknames... they were gained because that's what children called them, this includes Leelee and Assy under my nicknames.

Comments

[exitdamozel.livejournal.com]

I love nicknames.

I'm Kelsi, and it's kind of hard to shorten it to an actual name unless you're going the "Kel" route, which some people do.

I HATE IT when people call me Kels.

Some people have called me Kelsu, Kelsa or Kelso (Kelsu came from a typo, the "i" and "u" are right near eachother!)... so I've basically had every vowel end my name except "e"!

Kelsanna, Kelsi-kookles/Kelsi-Kokkles (given by someone I call Brit-bobbles and Brit-Boobles :P)

Then a bunch more than have no derivation from my actual name. So I won't bother getting into them.


Sometimes people mess with the spelling even more than it's been messed with... "Kel-C" was THE thing to call me in sixth grade.

[in-the-starlite.livejournal.com]

My best friend is Kelsielynn, and I call her Kels and Kelso. =]