But Margaret is a wonderful names that has more nicknames associated with it than anyone (except Elizabeth). When I worked for i2, we had a monicker file that had names and nicknames so you could search for a badguy named "Michael" and it would find "Mike" and "Mickey" and even "Miguel."
Alas, I no longer have that file, but I do remember Margaret had more AKAs than anybody. I remember:
Maggie, Marge, Margie, Margo, Madge, Midge, Peg, Peggy, and of course, Meg.
So I'll take this personally, because it wouldn't be funny if her name was "Meg":
Patricia has quite a few as well: Pat, Patty, Tricia, Trish, Tisha, Tish. And then there's Catherine/Cathleen (in all its various spellings): Cat, Cathy, Kitty, Kit, Cassy, Catty, Kate.
ReplyDeleteI picked Kathryn for my daughter's name partly for that reason.
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