[Closed] Name Nazis

Bobbin? is that you?

My name isn't Robert. Didn't stop every teacher I ever had insisting it was. People still assume it's Robert nowadays.

so who are you? Sue?!

mindmap3 - member

My other half's sister is really funny about people shortening her little 'uns name, Alexander. It's Ok to call in 'Zander' (WTF???)…

Nordic Noir fans?

In the recent Scandi TV series ’Follow The Money’ one of the main characters was Alexander but called Zander / Sander by his friends.

so who are you? Sue?!

one of the funniest songs ever written

Nordic Noir fans?

In the recent Scandi TV series ’Follow The Money’ one of the main characters was Alexander but called Zander / Sander by his friends.

See also: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Buffy was really called Alexander?

See also: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

See also [url= https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/enjoy-the-waterways/fishing/fish-species/invasive-and-non-native-fish/zander ]the Canal & River Trust[/url]
(a Zander is an agressive type of Perch, non-native invasive species)

Anyway, shouldn't it be Xander?

I don't answer to my full name, just the shortened version. Wife calls me Pip, everybody else Phil. I'm also one who yells my sons full name when he's in trouble. Other than that he has about ninety nicknames. Some are shortened versions of his name.

A bit of an idiotic thing to do, but if anyone I meet insists on being addressed by their full name and it's more than three syllables I'll shorten it just to annoy them. Don't be having a long name if you don't want it shortening 😈

My name's Bob.

Can't stand it when people insist on shortening it to "Kate".

Maybe that's why I'm eggy about it; my entire name is only 2 syllables; forename, surname, the lot.

It's such an issue my wife has made up a middle name so she can address me in a testy fashion in front of the kids.

They really do think my middle name is Lancelot.

My brother told all my mates at little school that my middle name was Bartholomew, followed me all the way through high school, that did. It got to the point where [b]I[/b] believed it. 🙁

Nordic Noir fans?

In the recent Scandi TV series ’Follow The Money’ one of the main characters was Alexander but called Zander / Sander by his friends.

No idea, but I'm sticking with Al.

Most bizarre for me is that my son has been known by his family name to all of his friends as long as I can remember- primary school, rugby team, secondary school, college and now university. None of them call each other by anything other than christian or nicknames. It hits home occasionally when one of them speaks to me and refers to him by our surname. I took him back after Christmas and as we were carrying stuff into his room I saw a cricket on the carpet. A quick search discovered that the room was full of them. As we were rounding them all up one of the other students whispered that two of the rooms had been hit, and that there were five or six more to find in "Barnett's" room. His twin sister was disgruntled to discover that she was known as "Barnett-Lass" at school.......

When my nephew was born, my mother in law rang to tell us the news, and the name. She did a poor job if hiding her displeasure that he had been called JJ. I asked what this stood for, and learned it stood for Jay-Jay 😀 . Apparently this is a footballer. My brother in law went and registered the birth without telling his wife, and she only learned of the name when he came back with the certificate. I think he got in the shit for that. They're divorced now.

Tell that to my daughters classmate Typhanny (No, really!)

Sounds like something you'd go to the GP to get some cream for.

See also: Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Yup. Xander's full name is Alexander Lovell Harris. (I've been waiting a decade or so for that to pop up on a pub quiz.)

Cougar, I'm disappointed in you. Buffy!? BUFFY!? I bet you love that episode where they all starting singing. I only know of it as my wife's a fan.

It's unfortunate that it's often the most illiterate parents that give their kids unusual names - I remember when I worked in a school it was only when we got to see one particular child's birth certificate that we actually got the correct spelling.
I have one of those surnames that people assume has an 's' on the end - they get told how wrong they are!

Adi.

Cougar, I'm disappointed in you. Buffy!? BUFFY!? I bet you love that episode where they all starting singing. I only know of it as my wife's a fan.

Once More With Feeling. I am a Whedonite, yes.

Xander has been a common short form for years, indeed one of my brother's school friend shortened it further to Xand. My brother is 57.

Give it another few years and you'll be Professor X.

BoardinBob - Member

My name isn't Robert. Didn't stop every teacher I ever had insisting it was. People still assume it's Robert nowadays.

Hence why Cilla Black always got a laugh in Glesga when she used to say "Ah miss my wee Boaby"

zander ( not xander) is a common abbreviation for Alexander in Scotland - hence Zander Fagerson the rugby player.

Everyone who knew me from birth to about 9 still calls me Nicky when they see me which is no way to address a 42 year old unless your Clarke or Campbell, Worse everyone that first knew me from 9-18 calls me Stainy usually said a broad Leeds accent.

When I started Uni I introduced myself as Nick from day 1 and thankfully that stuck.

zander ( not xander) is a common abbreviation for Alexander in Scotland -

Must be an Edinburgh thing.

I know lots of people called Alex, Alec, Lex, Eck , Sandy, and Sanny

I've met a couple Xanders.

Never any Zanders.

he is from Dundee / Perth. I have never heard of xander.

I do like some of the scottish ones. Senga took me years to understand. Its a name often adopted by women called Agnes - its simply Agnes backwards, George often becomes Doddy or Dod

ScottChegg - Member 
I called to one kid 'Timmy', and got a snotty baggage saying his correct mode of address was 'Timothy'. This was not helped by another Dad picking up on this and referring to him as Tim, Timmy, Timbo, Timster, Dr Timmington etc to even more lip pursing from the crone.

Can't stand Timothy myself. Yes that's my name (not Kenny you'd be surprised 😛 ). Tim is fine. My hate for the whole name stems a lot from the old TV show Sorry! though 😉

Timmy! Well I'm a fan of South Park (hence the name 😉 ) so appreciate a laugh at the name.

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Odd lad at work called Dave sent out a email saying he wanted to be called David from that point on. You can imagine what we all called Dave from that point on.

Most people call me Ed these days so it's always amusing when people who have known me a good while call me Edward.

My name is Edmund.

You can imagine what we all called Dave from that point on.

Loretta?

Odd lad at work called Dave sent out a email saying he wanted to be called David from that point on. You can imagine what we all called Dave from that point on.

I have a similar story, however, the chap in question's father died so he became Lord Something. He duly sent a fax to his clients announcing his change of name. One of the US ones called him and said "Hey, Lord, love the new name"

Had a few mates called George. Only one is referred to as George. The rest get (depending if they're West coast or borders) shug, shuggie, dod, doddie, and fud.

But I don't have kids, so what do I know.

I don't know what you know, I only know that by not having kids ...you are wise.

My name is James Grainger & when I was 12 a schoolteacher insisted on calling me Stewart. It was ages before I twigged.

Being Old Bill means I have had a good deal of exposure to economically diverse population groups, who have a good track record of stupid baby names.

I went to a domestic many years ago, and we record children's names for multi agency safeguarding purposes. The mother was very proud to announce that her new baby was called [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-Kwon ]J-KWON[/url]. I may have ventured to question the wisdom of naming a baby after an American one-hit-wonder rapper, particularly when mother and baby were a) not of similar ethnic background and 2) from a sleepy Oxfordshire market town, but the meaning was apparently lost.

Mind you, I know someone else who has named two boys Henley and Marlow. Both names were taken from a road atlas. Nice.

They should have gone for a hyphenated name for maximum impact, e.g. Kingston-Upon-Hull.

I have a mate called Dave. He is absolutely, 100%, a David- he's polite, quietly spoken, serious and considered, everything a Dave is not.

WTF is that supposed to mean???

Ah, yes, you may have a point there.

Have we done people who are known by their middle names yet?

My name is James Grainger & when I was 12 a schoolteacher insisted on calling me Stewart. It was ages before I twigged.

Ahh - Jimmy Stewart. Good one.

My name is James Grainger & when I was 12 a schoolteacher insisted on calling me Stewart. It was ages before I twigged.

You got off lightly. If you were at school now you'd be known as Hermione.

Have we done people who are known by their middle names yet?

My dad was know by his middle name, as he shared a first name with his dad. Strange that they didn't just reverse the names.

Ah, family names eh.
Grandad was simply James (Sword). My dad was called James Alister, but known as Alister to void confusion.. Not so bad. I have the same first name (James) and tradition of a different middle name, but it's my mum's maiden name, with a Mc prefix, so I'm known by that name - shortened. Causes all manner of problems over the years as even my initials don't add up to my known name - until my bank manger 'invented' some initials to cover all bases !!

I have a similar story, however, the chap in question's father died so he became Lord Something. He duly sent a fax to his clients announcing his change of name. One of the US ones called him and said "Hey, Lord, love the new name"

A good few years back, a site visit I was doing for work took longer than anticipated and necessitated an overnight stay at short notice. I rang work and asked a colleague to make the booking whilst I was otherwise engaged.

Got to the hotel and something was... off, the staff were being a bit odd in a way I couldn't quite put my finger on. It transpired that when he'd made the booking he'd spotted "Lord" as the list of options in the Title drop-down so selected it for a laugh. No wonder they were looking at me funnily.

The mother was very proud to announce that her new baby was called J-KWON

Maybe it's just forward planning, she's planning on having another and calling it Jake 2?

They should have gone for a hyphenated name for maximum impact, e.g. Kingston-Upon-Hull.

Wells-next-the-Sea...

I worked with a guy whose name was Kenneth. He had a brother, who also was called Kenneth.... Mind you he hailed from the Isle of Lewis so that could explain a lot.

Apparently the tradition was to name your kids after their grandparents and both grandfathers were called Kenneth....

Was it the same Kenneth?

Was it the same Kenneth?

Don't be stupid, it was [i]obviously[/i] one named after each... 🙄

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Senga took me years to understand. Its a name often adopted by women called Agnes - its simply Agnes backwards

Can't believe I am just finding this out!

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I worked with a guy whose name was Kenneth. He had a brother, who also was called Kenneth.

I know a bloke in the same predicament, Strangely he's a Kenneth as well. He's not from the isle of Lewis but his wife is !!
He likes to be called Dave.

My name is James Grainger & when I was 12 a schoolteacher insisted on calling me Stewart. It was ages before I twigged.

My surname is Drummond. I was terrible at rugby. So, one of the teachers (who happened to be from Leigh) rechristened me...

My dad was know by his middle name, as he shared a first name with his dad. Strange that they didn't just reverse the names.

My dads Bob, I'm Rob.

Pain in the ass for post sometimes though if they drop the middle name.

His intials RE (his middle name Eric, after his father), mine RN..

Still, unoriginal bastards!

I worked with a guy whose name was Kenneth. He had a brother, who also was called Kenneth.

The mother was very proud to announce that her new baby was called J-KWON

Maybe it's just forward planning, she's planning on having another and calling it Jake 2?

Applauds 😆

My surname is Drummond. I was terrible at rugby. So, one of the teachers (who happened to be from Leigh) rechristened me...

So you're now known as Bass?

I have a friend who's known as Sandy (short for Alexander). His dad is Alec (short for Alexander) and his grandfather Alex (short for Alexander). His wife put her foot down about naming their son Alexander and this was something of a source of tension with his family and only partly assuaged by the boy getting Alexander as his middle name.

First name Bruce?

bencooper - Member
First name Bruce?

The boy's first name is actually his mum's maiden name, which was also a fairly normal first name.

My dads Bob, I'm Rob.

I'm Alan, my dad was Alan, his dad was Alan, and I spent much of my formative years with my Uncle Allan. To avoid confusion(!), we were Big Allan, Little Alan, Young Alan, Old Alan.

So you're now known as Bass?

*Applauds back*

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I'm Alan, my dad was Alan, his dad was Alan, and I spent much of my formative years with my Uncle Allan. To avoid confusion(!), we were Big Allan, Little Alan, Young Alan, Old Alan.

hah..

I know of a family where all the sons and the father are called David.. the one i know was referred to by his middle name, Alun 🙂

We have traced my family tree a long way back. Until a couple of generations ago they were quite poor folk and this seems to manifest in a shortage of names. All the men were called Henry and all the women Martha. All of them over many generations

Am the only one who gets peeved when uninformed parents give their children shortened names as their full name. My nephew is Jack. That's a bloody nickname FFS! Anther family member has Betty and Harry as names. idiots.
As for shortening names. if its objected to then its a no no for me. Manners cost nothing.