Initials using the first letters of a person's first and last name.ĭropping letters: With many nicknames, one or more letters, usually R, are dropped: Fanny from Frances, Walt from Walter. Alternatively, the verb truncate could be used, which means to chop the head or the tail of something.Ī nickname can be a shortened or modified variation on a person's real name.Ĭontractions of longer names: Margaret to Greta. Wikipedia suggests the following verbs: abbreviate, modify, contract, and shorten. I may have posted this in the wrong place - I am happy for it to be repositioned perhaps with a more accurate subject line - BUT I just want to recall that blessed word and improve my grammar!īecause that is how we have XXXXXXXXXXX her formal name of My wife could not help, she compared it to 'Betty' as an alternative to Elizabeth - but I do not think that is quite the same - as Betty - to me seems - a definite abbreviation of Elizabeth. So what I am after is something about renaming akin to a nickname - I had hoped it will come back to me but it has not yet!Īll this was prompted by the sight of a product supplied in a can - I am not sure where from - that contains what I know as tuna fish but is called 'Fanny' and therefore if it were seen in a British provision store might produce a smirk or embarrassed giggles because some, such as me, would consider it rude - I have said too much. I am writing in England and am 66 years old - the word 'fanny' in my era is slang for the most intimate part of a woman's body, yet means other things in other versions of English, and is indeed used as a woman's nickname in England on some occasions. THIS is getting to be a long entry and unlikely to attract any, let alone many readers. Word for changing or shortening or abbreviating a given nameĪfter amending the original search to try to get what I am seeking & so far what is here is the nearest but I KNOW there is a word for exactly that which I seek. I came to this website when I was looking for a particular word - but did not use a thesaurus because I could not think of a good synonym.
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