Re: CHAT: "Nik"names :) (was Re: Middle Initials)

Eric Christopherson wrote:
> Interesting. Was there a certain point when you started spelling it that
> way, or have you just done so all along?
Can't remember exactly when I dropped the <c>, but I think 8th grade or
9th.  I was actually inspired by another person who spelled his name
with a <k>, but his name was Nikolaus, or something like that.

> I thought about that too and figured it
> was just because it seems more "natural" to spell final /k/ with <ck>, at
> least after lax vowels.
True, true ... but when I changed to Nik, I wasn't really aware of those
patterns in English, and I simply didn't like that seemingly-redundant
-ck, and Nic just, IMHO, looks hideous.  Some time ago, because I seem
to be the only Nik on any of my listservs, I experimented with just
having Nik as my name, but I didn't like the way it looked, so I went
back to Nik Taylor.

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