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Did you notice that?
pwhodges:
At work I interact routinely with six people called Claire; one's my line manager.
Is it cold in here?:
How do you manage? Nicknames? Subscripts?
Zebediah:
I had two uncles. Both were named Don. (My dad's brother and my dad's sister's husband.) I never really thought about it much when I was a kid; to me, "Don" was simply something you called an uncle.
My aunt's husband took a certain perverse pride in introducing himself at family weddings as "the other Uncle Don." :-D
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 02 Sep 2013, 09:05 ---How do you manage? Nicknames? Subscripts?
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In my group: "Claire B", "Claire S", and "Claire I"; outside just surnames when necessary. But even within the one group ambiguity is pretty rare - at least they work on different trials! For a time (no longer) the Trials Group manager and the newest lowly recruit had the same first and last names. We tried "Sarah 2", but that didn't work, so we got her reluctant permission to call the new person "Sarah-Jane".
My wife and I each have a sister called Frances; each Frances is married to a Stephen/Steven. (The similarity ends there - one is a priest, as poor as priests often are, while the other is an international shipping lawyer who I guess earns over ten times what I do.)
Method of Madness:
The last initial reminds me of a good friend of mine from college, whenever we'd go to the bar and each start a tab.
Bartender: Ok, so you're Eric and you're...oh. Well you're Eric S. and you're Eric...damn it, really?
After a couple times of being amused, we'd just preempt all this and tell them that I was the blue card and he was the green card.
Also re: judgement/judgment, on the first day of law school orientation two weeks ago, the professor asked us to write down the word, to see how many people knew how to spell it. How I remember goes back way further than that. I was sick once in fourth grade, and called my friend to get the spelling words for that week (we had a spelling test each week). One of the words was judgment.
Me: J-U-D-G-E-M-E-N-T, right?
Friend: Nope, no first E, J-U-D-G-M-E-N-T.
Me: Really? Hmm...ok.
After I got the rest of the words, I looked it up, and was surprised to find out that yeah, it was judgment. That was over 15 years ago and seeing it spelled properly still makes me think of that.
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