Re: OFF: Name for a cat

Nik Taylor scripsit:

> Cool, my brother's cat has that nickname, among others.  His real name
> is Freckle - NOT FreckleS :-) , but he's also known as:
> Freck
> Don Frecklini
> Mr. Freckle (we do that with all the cats, a sort of pseudo-honorific
>    - Southern dialect uses Mr./Mrs./Ms. + first name as a polite form,
>    especially by children to adults)
My cat is named Max, just Max, but he is sometimes called Maxo, Maxie,
or Maximilian (which in my dialect sounds like "Max a million" and is
present as a subtext).

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