*drags Joodles out from under the bed sheets wearing an irrepressible grin*
No hiding! That is too precious for words! I love it!
Alright, my grandmother had a hard time saying Patti without making me wince. Because it sound like Petty. So, she went with my middle name which is Elizabeth, shortened it to Beth and, okay, in German, to make a name diminutive you either add a "che" sound to the end of (spelled cia I think, the 'c' in German is sort of hard and soft at the same time, it's like a hard whispery sound forced between your teeth) or you add "lein" to the end of the name. My mother was always Christalein. I was Betia, which, when pronounced, sounds like Betcha, like, You Betcha! Not really that much better than Petty. I was screwed either way.
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*drags Joodles out from under the bed sheets wearing an irrepressible grin*
No hiding! That is too precious for words! I love it!
Alright, my grandmother had a hard time saying Patti without making me wince. Because it sound like Petty. So, she went with my middle name which is Elizabeth, shortened it to Beth and, okay, in German, to make a name diminutive you either add a "che" sound to the end of (spelled cia I think, the 'c' in German is sort of hard and soft at the same time, it's like a hard whispery sound forced between your teeth) or you add "lein" to the end of the name. My mother was always Christalein. I was Betia, which, when pronounced, sounds like Betcha, like, You Betcha! Not really that much better than Petty. I was screwed either way.