Re: childish pronunciation of "Christophe"

On Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:48:28 -0600 Nik Taylor <fortytwo@...> writes:
>Speaking of names, I wonder how many people here had nicknames based
>on
>distortions of their names as children, or still retain them?  Other
>than common ones like shortenings, etc.
My nickname "Steg" comes from that....in seventh and eighth grade, me, my
brother Alan, and my cousin Jeffrey were all in the same class for one
subject, and my cousin used to make up nicknames, based on our names, and
then mutate them...my brother wrote down the whole evolution of his own
somewhere, but i don't know where.  If i find it i could probably
reconstruct my own and my cousin's.

Some examples:

Stephen / Alan / Jeffrey

Septagon / Octagon / Hexagon
Steg / Ag / Jag

My "Steg" was the only one to survive, though, since my cousin continued
to call me it in highschool, and it spread to other people in my class.
Making my AIM screenname "StegBazak" also helped it survive, although a
few people for some reason pronounce it [stEg'batsak] instead of
['stEgba'zak].  And another of my friends calls me "Stegz".

The reason i'm glad that Steg survived, is because once we reached
highschool my cousin became a sicko :) and restarted the mutations:

Steg
Steed (from a line in Romeo & Juliet that we learned freshie year)
Steedwanger
Steedbanger
Gangbanger
Gangbang

Luckily it stopped there and just devolved back into Steg :)


-Stephen (Steg)
 "hhalomot zeh b'emet"

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