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Dave Smith[_1_]

On 2018-07-26 6:25 PM, wrote:
> On Thursday, July 26, 2018 at 4:05:14 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:

>> I have known several guys named Terence, but most of them went by Terry.
>> There was one Terrence who insisted on Terrence, not Terry. He said he
>> did not like being referred to in the diminutive. He was a university
>> professor, and I always expected that he should know the difference
>> between the diminutive and the familiar.
>>
>>
> My brother has two little boys named Kenneth and Nicholas. They were
> adamant when each was born they were not be called Kenny or Nicky.

If they didn't want them to have nick names they should have named them
something monosyllabic. No guy in this day and age wants to be called,
and most people don't want much to do with someone who insists on being
called Kenneth.