I like to be called shithead. That's pronounced Shi - thead.

My parents should have just named me "A-HOLE" It seems to be what most people call me.

Shortened version of my first name which is too long, not to mention dumb. My mother had a fascination with the girlfriend's of super hero comic strip characters. But it's been given to me by certain friends, not family. And it's sometimes repeated with a hyphen in between by a few other friends.

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Im glad they named me ...

I go by Jeff my full name is Jeffrey. I deal with customers quite often, mostly their engineers and they will reply using my full name. I find that strange as I always sign my e-mails Jeff. My e-mail appears with my full name so I would guess that is where it comes from. Once we get to know each other they refer to me as Jeff. I have always thought it is rather pompous to go by your full name. Most of those that I have met that do strike me as swollen with self importance.

Friend of mine has this habit of calling her guy friends by their full name. Jake is Jacob, Josh is Joshua, etc. Yet, she calls me Leo.

I used to have a friend named Cindy Lou. We used to call her Cynthia Louise just to make her mad. Her mom always said that, if she wanted people calling her Cynthia, she would have named her Cynthia and not Cindy.

Was she from Whoville?

I do that with a couple of friends... had a gf named Cassandra and I never got used to calling her Cass or Cassie like her other friends; and I have a good friend who has actually complained that she doesn't like me calling her Alexandra, since everyone else calls her Alex... but both full names are, well, better. ;)

That's another thing we'd tease her with.

I have a niece named Alexis that goes by Alex and I can never bring myself to call her that, it's a dude's name.

Depends. Cass and Cassie are "cute" names. Cassandra is a beautiful name. Depends on her personality.

Exactly... and her personality doesn't really fit Alexandra, but yeah, Alex is for guys. I had a friend named Alexis in high school and couldn't ever call her Alex, either.

For some reason the name Cassie has a bad connotation... she definitely fit the name Cassandra better, imo.

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i've got a fairly common first name. it's one of those names that people apparently like to add an "ie", or "y" on the end.(billEE, samMee, georgeEE, etcEE)
as a kid, i hated it and thought it sounded sissy.
somewhere around the age of 25, most people that added the "EE" to the end of my name, were either family, or friend. i kinda started to like it.
if you hear someone calling your name, it usually means you're not dead.
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