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Post by Knee Deep in Water Chloe on Jun 29, 2016 11:25:15 GMT -5
My husband has had several colleagues named Jeff. Often, when he and I are talking about his work day, we simply use last names. However, with two of them who have the same type of position, one is spelled Jeff and the other Geoff. We call them Jeff and G-Jeff.
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Post by Apple on Jun 29, 2016 11:38:09 GMT -5
Current work place uses last name for pretty much everyone (except me, because only a couple know how to pronounce it). But then you have the people with the same last name...
Someone earlier reminded me about all the Scotts at the last place. One I called "Viking Scott"--guy was big, insanely strong, red-ish blonde hair and looked like a viking.
Old workplace you didn't usually know last names unless you worked on a computer (lots of emails) or the person had been around forever. So that's where "good" and "bad" came in. For the rescue team, they needed to have them write their full name because a lot of people didn't know who H. Jones was, but they knew Harry.
Another way was by job, so you might have Electrician Dave, Mechanic Dave, etc.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 29, 2016 11:50:07 GMT -5
My son named his son the same name! Really? So now its big and little, but that will cause problems, my husband goes by the same name even though its his middle name, so 3 of them. Makes no sense to me. You could have had Name, Jr and Trey. I've seen a lot of that. Trey/third... they think they're clever. In laws have a lot of Big/little or just double up the poor kid's name. Like JohnJohn. I'm not fond of either but the double name really makes me bonkers. There's a Wayne and Little Wayne. That one cracks me up.
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Jun 29, 2016 12:05:22 GMT -5
uncle John's kid is Johnnie, his kid is John John.
My grandfather was Frank, my dad was Frankie. He's now frank.
My great uncle was Mike. My brother is Michael.
My aunt is Pat, her daughter is Patty.
My uncle is Roy, his kid is Chip.
My best friends mom was Mary. She was Mary Belle. Her father was Bill, the son was Billy, and Billy's kid was Will.
At work, there are some duplicate attorney names. We usually call them by their last names. Are you guys Greek? There is a woman who refers to my grandmother by her middle name. I have no idea why. She called once looking for her and i told her she had the wrong number. When grandma asked who called I told her "Someone looking for Joan" and my grandma told me that was her. Lady got pissed off I hung up which I don't think was fair. How the hell was I supposed to know? She could have used my grandmother's first name or supplied the last name when it was apparent I had no clue who she was talking about.
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Post by swamp on Jun 29, 2016 12:10:31 GMT -5
uncle John's kid is Johnnie, his kid is John John.
My grandfather was Frank, my dad was Frankie. He's now frank.
My great uncle was Mike. My brother is Michael.
My aunt is Pat, her daughter is Patty.
My uncle is Roy, his kid is Chip.
My best friends mom was Mary. She was Mary Belle. Her father was Bill, the son was Billy, and Billy's kid was Will.
At work, there are some duplicate attorney names. We usually call them by their last names. Are you guys Greek?
There is a woman who refers to my grandmother by her middle name. I have no idea why. She called once looking for her and i told her she had the wrong number. When grandma asked who called I told her "Someone looking for Joan" and my grandma told me that was her. Lady got pissed off I hung up which I don't think was fair. How the hell was I supposed to know? She could have used my grandmother's first name or supplied the last name when it was apparent I had no clue who she was talking about. LOL, no. Irish and French Canadian. The Irish have more of the duplicate names.
Not a single Anita, Diana, or Nick in the group.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 12:10:48 GMT -5
I had a boyfriend in high school named Brian. But everyone called him Frank. His much older brother came home from college one day and said, you look like a garbage man, and all garbage men are called Frank... and he liked that better so insisted that was his name. nly his mom called him Brain. The first time i called the house and his dad answerd i asked for Brian and then heard him yell "Frank" its for you... Don't know if he ever officiallly changed it, but Frank is the name he still goes by. His dad also gave his grandauthers boy nicknames. I remember one was Todd... anyway.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 29, 2016 12:21:59 GMT -5
I was engaged to a "Buddy - nickname. Met someone else and broke off the engagement Eventually married the guy. Wanna guess what his nickname was Yep, Buddy. I believe in keeping it simple and no risk of calling someone by the wrong name. ETA. No my son is not a Buddy! Gave him his dad's first name but he goes by his middle name. That was my doing.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 29, 2016 13:15:05 GMT -5
My dad and my uncle had the same first name, the were referred to by last names. Dad's family had a lot of duplicates. Lots of full names used there. Or titles, like Uncle John and just John for his son.
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Post by garion2003 on Jun 29, 2016 13:37:16 GMT -5
I work closely with 2 Jason's, and they just hired a 3rd a few months ago. It used to be Jason and Other Jason. Other Jason use to sometimes be called "OJ". But now that doesn't work with the third Jason (Yet Another Jason was deemed too clunky), so mostly we rely on context or use last names.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 13:40:42 GMT -5
I like OJ and AJ
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 29, 2016 13:43:06 GMT -5
We have 2 Jasons in the family too. They get referred to by the names of the women they belong with. L's (DH's sister) Jason or W's (my sister) Jason by me & my husband since it's mostly us needing to differentiate.
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Post by GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl on Jun 29, 2016 13:45:57 GMT -5
It came up in the Nana thread... How do you differentiate two people who have the same name (either in person or "behind their back", lol). At work we had two Jerrys who did the same job. They were called "good Jerry" and "bad Jerry". Bad Jerry wasn't necessarily bad, but he wasn't as nice as good Jerry. Growing up we used "big name" and "little name" when my mom babysat a girl with the same name as my sister. My sister was older/bigger so she was "big name" when they were around. Same sister was given a complete new name in college. Her name is the normal nickname for a much longer name, and there were too many with that nickname. So even though she's the only one whose real name was the short version, she was given a nickname based on the last part of the full name (So, if her name was Viv, she was given the name "Ann", even though she wasn't a Vivian). We've also just given some people new names, some not very nice. Like the short guy who thought he was the best became Napoleon. We had one guy we called "The Senator" (it wasn't a good thing). I've known a "Jim" who became "Jake" for years because there were so many Jims. At the risk of being creepy, and I sincerely do not mean to be, having read most of your posts over the years on a wide variety of topics, I always thought you were an only child, LOL!!
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Post by Apple on Jun 29, 2016 13:56:39 GMT -5
It came up in the Nana thread... How do you differentiate two people who have the same name (either in person or "behind their back", lol). At work we had two Jerrys who did the same job. They were called "good Jerry" and "bad Jerry". Bad Jerry wasn't necessarily bad, but he wasn't as nice as good Jerry. Growing up we used "big name" and "little name" when my mom babysat a girl with the same name as my sister. My sister was older/bigger so she was "big name" when they were around. Same sister was given a complete new name in college. Her name is the normal nickname for a much longer name, and there were too many with that nickname. So even though she's the only one whose real name was the short version, she was given a nickname based on the last part of the full name (So, if her name was Viv, she was given the name "Ann", even though she wasn't a Vivian). We've also just given some people new names, some not very nice. Like the short guy who thought he was the best became Napoleon. We had one guy we called "The Senator" (it wasn't a good thing). I've known a "Jim" who became "Jake" for years because there were so many Jims. At the risk of being creepy, and I sincerely do not mean to be, having read most of your posts over the years on a wide variety of topics, I always thought you were an only child, LOL!! Lol. My son is an only child, but I'm number 4 out of 5! Five years between 1&2, 3&4, 4&5, two years between 2&3, so pretty big gap between us all.
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Post by NastyWoman on Jun 29, 2016 14:08:36 GMT -5
ETA. No my son is not a Buddy! Gave him his dad's first name but he goes by his middle name. That was my doing. We have a lot of that going on in my family. DS1 goes by his middle name, but I may be taking the cake here. Where/when I am from kids are not limited to just two names (first, middle) you were supposed to be named for both your godparents and whatever saints the family thought would help and protect you through life. As a result I have four (4) official names and just because that was not confusing enough, no one ever called my by any of those names. The name they used, and which I still go by to this day, is a combination of my maternal GM (claimed) first name and my DGF name.
Add to that that I hyphenated my last name when I married according to Dutch custom. When I divorced I dropped Xs name and most people in the US promptly dropped my family name because of the opposite format used. I have a very easy time hiding in many places, but a heck of a time whenever someone is checking my records for whatever. They can never find me and when I tell them where to look, many people don't believe me and have to be told multiple times...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 14:17:04 GMT -5
My side of the family is not particularly large and we were not named after anyone alive, that I am aware of. My name was not particularly popular at the time but that would probably be because of Stephen King and the effin' book that came out at the same time I did. Damn wife of his should have left it in the trash.
DH has a huge family (1 of 6 and all married) so everyone is named after someone. His one and only BIL has the same name but, for as long I have ever known them, he was always called by his last name. The 2 Mikes are Mike and Mikey. I guess they never wanted to call him Junior. Eh.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jun 29, 2016 14:26:19 GMT -5
I forgot about all the Jeffs I used to know. Occasionally many would be in the room together so there was Big Jeff, My Jeff, Gay Jeff, Just Jeff, and The Other White Jeff. Because they were all white dudes named Jeff.
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Post by swamp on Jun 29, 2016 15:06:46 GMT -5
I forgot about all the Jeffs I used to know. Occasionally many would be in the room together so there was Big Jeff, My Jeff, Gay Jeff, Just Jeff, and The Other White Jeff. Because they were all white dudes named Jeff. which one is my DH?
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Post by greeniis10 on Jun 29, 2016 15:19:32 GMT -5
This is exactly why I learned (the hard way) to find out the last names of my kids' friends. My youngest son had 2 close friends named Spencer. They were both very different. One was a straight A student applying for colleges the first chance he got, the other barely passed each grade and was always in trouble. They were also different nationalities. One day I was standing in line at the grocery store and my son called me to say he was going to Spencer's house. Without thinking I asked him (nationality) Spencer or (other nationality) Spencer? VERY un-pc. Oops. I learned their last names that day.
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Post by Artemis Windsong on Jun 29, 2016 15:21:22 GMT -5
Our club has this issued. We put first name, last name #1, first name, last name #2.
In families with males named the same in different generations they refer to the as dos, tres, quatro, etc.
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Post by Cookies Galore on Jun 29, 2016 15:30:14 GMT -5
I forgot about all the Jeffs I used to know. Occasionally many would be in the room together so there was Big Jeff, My Jeff, Gay Jeff, Just Jeff, and The Other White Jeff. Because they were all white dudes named Jeff. which one is my DH? Disney Jeff. Lol.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 29, 2016 15:31:00 GMT -5
which one is my DH? Disney Jeff. Lol.
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Post by lexxy703 on Jun 29, 2016 15:35:11 GMT -5
When I was in elementary school there were three of us with the same name. So it was big, little & I was first-middle.
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Post by garion2003 on Jun 29, 2016 16:04:47 GMT -5
My son named his son the same name! Really? So now its big and little, but that will cause problems, my husband goes by the same name even though its his middle name, so 3 of them. Makes no sense to me. You could have had Name, Jr and Trey. I've seen a lot of that. Trey/third... they think they're clever. In laws have a lot of Big/little or just double up the poor kid's name. Like JohnJohn. I'm not fond of either but the double name really makes me bonkers. There's a Wayne and Little Wayne. That one cracks me up. for someone labeled the "III" I had a friend tell me they called them "Tripp", for triple I guess. It might be a southern thing? All I know her husband was called Tripp, and he was named something like John Ross Ewing, III.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Jun 29, 2016 16:07:59 GMT -5
You could have had Name, Jr and Trey. I've seen a lot of that. Trey/third... they think they're clever. In laws have a lot of Big/little or just double up the poor kid's name. Like JohnJohn. I'm not fond of either but the double name really makes me bonkers. There's a Wayne and Little Wayne. That one cracks me up. for someone labeled the "III" I had a friend tell me they called them "Tripp", for triple I guess. It might be a southern thing? All I know her husband was called Tripp, and he was named something like John Ross Ewing, III.
Not many of either around me, but I've heard both. Funny enough, I've never liked any of the people I've met going by that name.
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Post by Wisconsin Beth on Jun 29, 2016 16:20:33 GMT -5
I forgot about all the Jeffs I used to know. Occasionally many would be in the room together so there was Big Jeff, My Jeff, Gay Jeff, Just Jeff, and The Other White Jeff. Because they were all white dudes named Jeff. Not as big as wee jock jock! Man, I miss Terry Pratchett.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Jun 29, 2016 17:24:01 GMT -5
for someone labeled the "III" I had a friend tell me they called them "Tripp", for triple I guess. It might be a southern thing? All I know her husband was called Tripp, and he was named something like John Ross Ewing, III.
Not many of either around me, but I've heard both. Funny enough, I've never liked any of the people I've met going by that name. If I had named my son after his dad he would have been a third. All I could think of was turd!! So I compromised and gave him his dad's first name and I gave him a different middle name which is what he is called. I was was being pressured to make him a third so every time they asked about name I told doc I hadN't decided yet. Day I was discharged doc asked if he was going home as NNP baby. I named him right then and told his dad what kiddo's name when he came to take us home. IL's were pissed off but I really lost a lot of sleep over it
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Post by taz157 on Jun 29, 2016 19:49:45 GMT -5
At my work, me and another co-worker share the same first name. When the staff is talking about us, they use our last name to differentiate us. When the bosses are talking about us, they use our first and last name.
My brother and my dad have the same first name. My dad goes by a common nickname for the first name while my brother goes by CJ (first name Jr).
At DD's daycare when she started (when she was 2), there were 2 boys with the same first name. It was Logan A and Logan G. When Logan A was learning his last name, they were telling his last name is A_______. He said no, it is A. Logan G left the daycare a few months later so his name returned to Logan. He's now 5 and knows his last name.
At a prior job, my boss and his son have the same first name. My boss was named after his dad. The dad went by his middle name, the boss by his first name, and the son was Trey.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2016 19:56:30 GMT -5
We did a family same name thing, but it really isn't that confusing. Names are made up for this example. Ex's father was John Matthew Smith. He was called John. Ex/John's son was named John William Smith. He was called William. Son/John's grandson was named John David Smith. He was called David. Grandson/John's great-grandson was named John Leroy Smith. He was called Johnny. John died and Johnny is getting older. So he's called John half the time. It's not confusing at all, but it passes along the line and lineage.
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Post by andi9899 on Jun 29, 2016 20:10:35 GMT -5
At work we have a Terri and a Teri. So we call them one R Teri and two R Terri.
We have a Craig and a Kraig. We call them K Kraig and C Craig.
Then there's me and the other Andrea. She's Andrea and I'm Andi.
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Post by andi9899 on Jun 29, 2016 20:13:55 GMT -5
We also have 3 generations of Roberts on each side of the family. On my mom's side they are Robert, Bobby, and Leroy respectively. On dad's side they are Gus, Robo, and little Bobby.
My dad's brother and his son are both Richard. They are Rick and Ricky. Sometimes they are big Rick and little Rick.
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