In message , Adrian
writes
Cathi wrote:
Anyone else get ticked off if their name is shortened beyond where
they would care to shorten it?

Example: My name is Catherine. I choose to be known as Cathi in
common parlance (although family have always called me Katie). But I
don't choose to be known as Cath.. *Particularly* with the Estuary
English "pronunciation", which is a long "a", and a double "f" at the
end :"Caaaaaff" It just sounds lazy and sloppy. I had one co-worker
who would always remember half-way through using it, so it would come
out as"*Caaaaff*-i" For heaven's sake - I'm a human being, not a
greasy spoon diner as immortalised in EastEnders!

Would Cat be OK? ;-)
:-D

I use the nickname "Catsmeat" on a number of talkboards, and get a fair
number of variations on that, including Cat, Catz and Catsy.

I guess what I *really* objected to, if the truth be told, was the "ff"
instead of the "th". Cath is at least a name given to people (my aunt
was a Kath, short for Kathleen). Didn't help that co-worker in question
was a nasty piece of work anyhow ;-)

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Cathi