# Baby nicknames

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-nicknames/966550>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 21, 2022, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-nicknames/966550 "2022-06-21T12:24:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2022, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-nicknames/966550/41 "2022-07-02T00:34:56Z")

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> [@peedin](#):
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> My nephew couldn’t pronounce Paula. It came out Peedin, and Peedin I’ve been for 60+ years.

I don’t think I’ve ever had anyone mispronounce my name (Paula), but, man, in first grade you should have seen the ways it was misspelled on Valentine’s Day cards. With only five letters, the variations were amazing.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2022, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/baby-nicknames/966550/42 "2022-07-03T03:38:36Z")

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> [@digs](#):
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> But what I really hate is when a parent says _“This is William. Now, we named him William, but he will NEVER be called Bill or Will.”_
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> Ummm, why do you think that’s YOUR decision? And how are you going to enforce that twenty years from now?

Hell, how are they gonna enforce it when he starts preschool? I was certain that my daughter would be Michaela and nothing but, for life.

After a week in daycare, she was Kayla.

She’s still Kayla to me at 26, but most of her contemporaries now call her Mikky (I _think_ I spelled that right).

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