Comments on: He’s Just T to Me

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:58:36 +0000

I am just catching up with this post. Michael, your name in my phone is spelled “Mikel”…pronounced My-Kell. Anna-Stass–my brother, for some reason, always called me Johnny when I was younger. I think he liked this mostly because it got a rise out of me. I would get so angry and stomp around about how I was a girl, not a boy, and that my name was Chelsea, not Johnny. I must say to everyone who has replied here, I am envious of your posts. Unlike all of you, I never had a nick name that stuck…i get the occasional “Chels” “Chel” or “Chelly” which usually is followed by “Chelly belly, you’re so smelly”. Oh how wonderful.

By: Mike M

Mike M — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:46:08 +0000

Sometimes it’s not a nickname, but how you pronounce someone’s real name that brings out the uniqueness – how would you spell My-kell?

By: Tiffany

Tiffany — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:45:57 +0000

I never truly realized how big of a part nicknames are to my family and friends until you pointed it out.
- I remember referring to you Anna, as “Anna banana” so frequently that I forgot your last name was actually Smith and wondered why your locker was near mine and not in the ‘B’ section!
- My family and friends have a wide variety of nicknames- in fact our group of friends not only have their own unique nicknames, but we also took it one step further to create a nickname for the entire group of girls ‘SCLANTTS’.
If I had to dub one person as the master of nicknames in my family, it would be my dad. To him I am refered to Youngin’, Wiffer, Tiffer, TifferWiffer, TiffWiff, Queen-la-tiff-a… The list is endless. Now that I am growing up he has now turned to naming my niece all sorts!!
In my closing statement I have to mention my favorite nickname. This was given to me while working at a small country store in West Stockbridge, MA C.H. Baldwin and sons. I was taking an order over the phone from an older southern man, when he asked my name I replied “Tiffany”- his reply was then ‘oh T-Baby?’ T for tiffany, baby for baby. This one shall be remembered forever!

By: E

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:33:56 +0000

I was Iceburg to my middle school basketball team, but of course Bunny and Conejo will go down as my longest lasting nicknames. My sister called me A-wack when she was little because she couldn´t say my full name and I totally hated it.
Of the nicknames in my family, it drives my parents insane that I call my sister variations on the term Poopy. She defiantly owns the nickname however, so it´s stayed. On the other hand, dear Andrew Young will never escape Andybear.

Add to the list of names for Anastasia ´Tay Tay´.

By: kcs

kcs — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:47:15 +0000

I guess all of this family nicknaming played a major role in the outlasting names you’ve created for our college peers. Even though it seems like some nicknames have worn off in the past couple years, it’s still hard for me to call some nicknamed by their given name.

I like that picture of T-dogg jenkins.

By: anastasia

anastasia — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:29:26 +0000

Annie – I love it all! You and Alex totally have good ears for names, like how you always refer to Becky Stecchetti by her full name.

We used to have a childrens’ book called ‘Annie Bananie’s Jump Rope Rhymes’ that caused my Mom to start calling me Annie Bananie. But a butt-slapping braces-wearing sixth grade teacher calling you that sounds absolutely traumatic. At least now you know how to really freak out the kids in neuf trois–get braces and start crossing physical boundaries.

By: annie

annie — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:18:10 +0000

I’m really down with this post, Anastasia. My family is pretty into nicknames, as well. One of my older sisters, Holly, has always been “hmboj” (holly molly bucket of jelly) but I have no idea as to its origin. Now I call her “Holls”, mostly.

Everyone calls me “Noonie” or “Annie Noonie” but I’m not sure where that comes from either. Sometimes I’m “Blueberry” to my dad but in the past few years he’s taken to “My delicate irish flower” which I just think is so pretty.

One of my younger brothers’ name is Andrew Michael and we’ve always called him Andrew Michael Mouse or even “Mickle Mouse.” It sort of rolls off of the tongue, don’t you think?

And I’m sure as you’ve gotten from time to time, I’ve been called Anna Banana more times than I can count (including by a scary 6th grade reading teacher with braces who used to also slap me on the butt and sometimes called me “Annie Bananie” – umm what was that about?!).

p.s. now come back to Paris.

By: anastasia

anastasia — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:08:41 +0000

oh yeah, Jessica! We laughed about that for so long! (sorry T)

And as for Paul’s names for Joe. I remember “Harry Barry” and “Jonabarris”

By: Jessica Bachma

Jessica Bachma — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:37:15 +0000

I vaguely remember the US Passport Agency also getting confused by the name and Teva’s long hair and marking little his passport (f). I think Anna and I thought this was funny for years. . .

By: Teva Smith

Teva Smith — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:04:03 +0000

I am flattered and touched by this nice write up. If I ever have the pleasure of speaking with someone who reads this post, I want to give them a few more name options. I have also been called, Tito, T-dogg, T-dogg jenkins, squeak, Tave, Mr. T, T. Mister, and T Rex. Additionally, I am open to new nicknames, and if we meet feel free to call me something new and unusual that I have not yet heard. Furthermore, if my sister Anna is with me, please feel free to call her Chrome Dome (a nick name I created for her that is near and dear to me). Finally, I would like to dispute Anna’s statement that our extended family does not use nicknames. Our cousin Paul has created more nicknames for his younger brother Joe then any nick name creator ever. Seriously, he should be in the Guinness book of world records. Every few months we have family parties. During the parties we all hear the new nicknames Paul has created for Joe in addition to the older more familiar ones. Paul often refers to Joe as, Frank, Scadootch, Samuel, and bump on a log, just to name a few. Anna can you remember some of the names Paul used to call Joe when we were growing up?