Abbreviating names on Gransnet

Likewise, absolutely unbothered! Gracesmum/grace/gm (?)/ oi you - all fine with me!

I have no problem,it is done affectionately,only one person shortens my real name,my brother,I am fine with that,mum used to do it to try and be ' matey' I hated it.

Have heard the saying " don't care what you call me,as long as its not late for me dinner"

Smol my Grandad used to say "I don't mind what you call me as long as it is not early*

moved

I couldn't give a fiddler's what people call me...

Very provocative GK You could have started something now!

I don't mind at all if my name is shortened, harri is fine but har might sound like an exclamation

harri!

When I was absentgrana lots of posters shortened it to absent. That was fine and is now what I have become. However, I refuse to answer to anything that sounds like a group of muscles – so please don't do it.

Not even if Jess Ennis posted?

Especially not if Jess Ennis posted.

*Abs* (ducks to avoid the snowball!)

Whenever anyone uses that word I think of her. I have them just as good as hers but they are well hidden/covered, of yes they are.........................

anno was what everyone called me when I was annobel, so in honour of my senior citizen status, I altered it to annodomini and I'm still anno. As long as I'm identifiable that's fine by me.
I reckon it's probably another 40 years before Jess Ennis joins G'net.

Vamps/VQ I don't mind.

Don't mind eggs that was always my nickname in my family growing up. My brothers still call me that.

when You're lucky that I have never learned to throw straight.

A lot of us used the word gran or some variation of that as a suffix or prefix when GN first started - perhaps we were a little unimaginative then as there are some wonderful names now!

I always think of a shortened name as a term of endearment to someone,and always hope it is accepted in that way,I quite like being glamma and never take offence, it's far better that being called some of the names my lot call me.

I like that thought Glam.

I dislike having my real name abbreviated when it turns a separate name in its own right. It's not that I particularly like my name but it is my name whereas the shortened version isn't. The only one who was allowed to shorten it was my mama. Mind you, that's better than my father calling me "Doings" because he couldn't remember my name! (There were only two daughters in the family, so it wasn't that hard.)

Sounds as if you agree with me absent