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adastra22last Sunday at 9:31 PM2 repliesview on HN

You've never met an Alexander that despises being called "Alex"?


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mkoubaalast Sunday at 11:01 PM

No but they all seem upset when I call them Alexa

gerdesjlast Sunday at 11:21 PM

No. Why would you "despise" being referred to?

My first name is Jonathan, I generally get referred to as (int al) Jon, Jonny, Jo, or John (bloody silent letters).

As it turns out, until I was 20 I thought my name was spelt Jonathon. I got a copy of my birth cert to get a student loan and discovered the "truth" - even my passport was wrong and my parents had to sort out the first few of those and they should have known better! I was born in 1970 and no one noticed that I misspelt my own first name for 20 years.