Prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet

[venta]

Fancy celebrating St Patrick's night tomorrow ?
The Far From the Madding Crowd has folk dancing (bad luck, it's us), music, possibly singing, monks to bless the beer, and all manner of goodness.


Yup, it's going the rounds, but I thought it might be of interest to some.

If you call me:

Venta you probably only know me from here.
Liz you're probably someone I've met in the last ten years, or who knows me from the Scout troop I belong to.
Beth you're someone I went to school with, or who was in the church choir with me.
Elizabeth you're probably someone I've met at some point. I tend to call myself Liz and Elizabeth reasonably interchangeably these days. Or you might just be cross with me.
Lizy you're RuthK, and where on earth have you been for the past twelve years ?
Lizzie/Lizzy you probably know me through rapper. I don't deliberately have a different name here, just it seems that's what people call me. Or you might have known me before I was about ten. Or you're a friend of Samantha's.
Bethaliz you're my Aunty Pat.
Blip you are Penny.
Spiv/Spivlet/Wizbit You're one of about four people I was at university with.
Morgause You used to play the same MUD as me when I was a student.
Silver You knew me online when I was a first year student.
Weebie You are family, or you're one of the few people who presumes it's OK to use my family nickname.

Have I missed any ?

Of these, I think only Elizabeth and its derivatives are in common use. Liz or Elizabeth for preference, please, though I answer to all of the above.

Am I odd in classifying some of those names as things it's OK for some people to call me, but not others ?

Comments

[kneeshooter]

I don't think you are odd at all. It annoys me when people cross the group boundaries. Good for you in actually letting us non-telepathic mortals know what they are...

Then again, I used to be extremely fastidious about not letting my different "lives" cross - then it all went horribly wrong.

[lnr]

I think of you as Liz Wootten (sp?), to distinguish between you and Liz Smith who I knew at the same time at Oxford. I do like the way Colin calls you Liz UU though.

I know what you mean about social groups and not deliberately having a different name. I get the same thing with Ellie to a certain extent.

[wimble.livejournal.com]

Lizziebossie? Or has that died a death (like I'm about to?)

[triskellian]

Am I odd in classifying some of those names as things it's OK for some people to call me, but not others?
Nope. Especially with a name with so many short forms - you gotta draw the line somewhere, or you'll have people calling you really silly things which I'm not going to list in case they give people ideas ;-)

And it's only an extension of not wanting people who don't know you to abbreviate unless/until you give them permission (if only implicitly) to do it.

[zotz]

Billboard Liz - I met you at Whitby a couple of years ago.

[kate-r.livejournal.com]

Not odd at all, there's very few people who can get away with calling me some names. I do associate names with periods in my life but don't actually answer to most of them anyway. I think it's quite rude to call someone by a name other than that they used when they first met - unless you've checked first. I have had problems with my name as there's so many variations.

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Blip you are Penny.

I'm hoping you know more than one Penny: otherwise, I must have a speech impediment, and everyone's been too polite to tell me!

Penny

[davefish.livejournal.com]

Auntie Lizzybossy Then you are inskauldrak and Liz is out of earshot.