Kate, Katie, Catherine, Cate, Katherine etc...

A thread for those of us that erm... are called one or more of the above or any other derivative of.

I'm Kate, short for Catherine. How does that ever work? The two names are totally different.

Caz is not short for Catherine in any of it's forms.

To be fair Kate and Catherine aren't that different.  They have three letters in common

We called our daughter Catherine, so that she could have a choice of what she wanted to call herself. Cath, Cathy, even Kate. Guess what? She has chosen to adopt the name of Cat.

WHAT?

We've no idea where that's come from.

Good to see you Blisters.  Its been a while since our paths crossed.

So what about other nicknames.  How does Richard become Dick?

I did think of Dick too Caz and several others. One of my daughters has a name you can't really shorten, but the other one is Jessica and we used to call her Jess, but she insisted on Jessie when she was about 6 to the point where the school had to change the registers and her name on her school books etc. Because she wouldn't answer to Jessica or Jess.

I strongly suspect that some of the people on here aren't called Katie .

literatin wrote (see)

I strongly suspect that some of the people on here aren't called Katie .

'Kate short for Bob', always one of my favourite Blackadder lines.

I thought Kate was short for Bob?

But I get your point.

Peter Everitt wrote (see)

I thought Kate was short for Bob?

 

Very childishly, I'm just enjoying beating you to that one! But immature minds think alike...

I'm a Catherine and I insist on being called Catherine. I dislike Cath and Cathy. Kate and Cat are fine but that's not what I'm called. The only abrieviation I answer to is when signed "C". Who in their right mind would use all 9 letters of my name when I understand that everyone calls me C.

kittenkat wrote (see)

Peter Everitt wrote (see)

I thought Kate was short for Bob?

 

Very childishly, I'm just enjoying beating you to that one! But immature minds think alike...

I was gutted!

I'm not a Catherine but there are a few derivatives of my name

Thomas becomes Tom, Tommy, Tomsk and Tomster. I prefer Tom or Tommy. Was know for awhile as Tom Booze and I did live up to it in my 20's and early 30's

anything but 'Cathy'. for some reasin that name gives me the boak.

My name is Sarah. I occasionally get called 'Sar', which is pronounced 'sair'. It sounds likes someone's trailed off mid-word. 

I've said for a long time that if I ever have children I'm going to give them a name that gives them options.