What is with this? Certain women frequently address me by both my first and last names. There is another guy with the same first name, but I don’t think this enters into it.
I could use a little feminine insight over here (for this and many other reasons).
At one of my former workplaces, I was routinely addressed by first and last names by most of the full time staff. They were mostly women, but I’m not sure that had anything to do with it–the place was mostly staffed by women. When I first started working there, there were two Anns, an Anna, a Jan, a Dan, and a Diane. If someone said the word “and” with enough emphasis, half the staff would turn their heads. Since I have one of the names on that list, during that time the full time staff would use both my names to differentiate me from the others, and the habit stuck even after nearly all the others had left. Newcomers would ask why I was called by both names and everyone would shrug.
Now, there was another employee named Brenda who was also always called by both names, and I have no idea why–she was the only Brenda there, and no other names sounded like hers. It just sounded right, I guess.
For me, it would depend on what your names are. I had a friend named David Arnold. I couldn’t call him “Dave” I had to call him “David Arnold”. i can call other guys by only one name, but somehow that combination needs both.
i’ll go along with medea’s child on this one. it depends on the name. it is a rhythym thing. if both names are one syl. then both names must be used. in medea’s child’s example we have the da da dada rhythym. good beat.
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Especially if his name is Mr. Rocky Balboa. Or Mr. David Larry.
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Where I work, there’s a guy named Lee B. Weaver. Sometimes we call him Lee B. just 'cause it rhymes, but other times we call him Lee Weaver just 'cause it sounds like “Dream Weaver.”
There’s also a guy named Joe Brown (short for Good Ol’ Joe Brown) who’s kind of a local celebrity. I think everyone in the county calls him by both names.
Some of the brass, like The Uberboss (my boss’s boss), I call by both names because I’m not sure which is proper for me to call them, with me being only a young peon.
some people just look like a sam keane or a hugh bradley, and not like a sam or a hugh.
i don’t know, but that’s the way it is, just like some people always have nicknames wherever they go and other don’t.
me, i’m called by 4 different shortened versions of my first name.