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I just started an evening screen writing class. I will definitely have to write a post on the differences found in prose writing versus a screenplay. BUT since this week has been crazy ridiculous busy with a new role I’ve taken on with anti-trafficking initiatives, I thought I would share a little more culture which was reinforced in last night’s class. It’s 8 p.m., and we are having the obligatory tea break. I’m in the kitchen making small talk with a middle-aged guy who does acting and producing.
Me: What was your name again?
Him: Daz.
Me: Daz? I like that. What’s it short for?
Him: Well, Daz is me. That’s what I consider my real name. But I guess it’s short for Darren.
Me: Then Daz it is.
Here is a list of a people I have met here and their shortened names:
Baz – Barrie
Mel – Melinda or Melanie
Kaz – Karen (the Brits like their ‘az’ ending names)
Pip – Pippa/Phillipa
Bex – Rebecca
Jaz – Jasmine
Nev – Neville
Shaz – Sharon
Di – Diana or Diane
Will/Wills – William and we all know the famous ‘Wills’ here.
(*Sidenote – don’t say ‘Willy’ here *blush*. It is a nickname for a body part only boys have, and my 8-yr-old son will start to giggle if you call anyone Willy. And my poor younger brother found this out the hard way when he said a nickname he loved was ‘slick Willy’. Later, after turning 50 shades of red because he told a group of female Brit uni students this ‘nickname’, he said, ‘I’m so American it hurts.’ ).
Kat – Katherine
Si – Simon
Jess – Jessica
Lottie and Charl – Charlotte
Vi – Violet
Iz – Isabel
This is not an exhaustive list, and I would love to hear from the Brits if you know any more. A friend told me that ‘if you can shorten the name, we will shorten it.’ So true.
And FYI – Some people call me ‘J’ for short. I like ‘J’, but please, I beg you, DON’T EVER call me Jean.
OK – I am adding more as people are sending them to me . . .
Sair/Sez – Sarah
Han – Hannah
Lu – Lucy
Ede – Edie
L – Eleanor
Nat – Natalie
Loz – Laurence
Nath – Nathan
Ness – Vanessa
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