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Tanya vs. Tania
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: tuathal on 12 May 2011, 12:36 ---your name is still a shortened form of benjamin
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Why not Benvolio or Benedict, though? Or Bennet, or Bentley, Benson, Benton, or even Benoni (the name given to the biblical Benjamin by his mother, before his father changed it). Who are you, or anyone, to say that it's any of these rather than none?
Inlander:
My actual legit birth first name really is just Harry. Sometimes people I've just met try to call me Harold or (less commonly) Henry but mostly they don't, probably because they realise that Harold and Henry are really dorky names.
Introducing yourself as Harry can be kind of awkward in formal situations, though. Fortunately I live in Australia and we're very rarely formal!
sean:
well, in a formal situation, wouldn't Mr. (insert last name here) be a touch more appropriate? or does nobody actually do that.
Lunchbox:
Oh of my workmates named her children Harrison and William, but they are just Harry and Billy always. Seems a bit silly to do it that way, but they are her children so whatever.
Inlander:
Oh by the way I'm named after this guy:
http://www.npgprints.com/image/449148/walter-stoneman-sir-harry-owen-chalkley
He was my maternal great-grandfather.
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