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Originally posted by notcasesensitive
I'm not sure. I'm still working on my logo.

I have a friend who has been attempting for the past couple of years to change from Jeff to J (I think no period, but I can't recall for sure). He decided there were too many Jeffs in the world (at least 3 in the small company that he works for) and he's never liked the way it worked with his last name. I'm not very good at calling people who change their names by something new, so I still say Jeff at least 1/2 the time. Plus his nickname with me is "Hot Jeff" (these nicknames really pissed off "Cold Jeff" at the time of naming), and for some reason "Hot J" just doesn't work as well for me.

My sister decided to change the pronounciation of her name in her twenties. She decided that the pronounciation given by our parents was mid-western and wrong*, so she adopted a more (in my opinion) snooty sounding pronounciation. I still use the original pronounciation (when we are speaking, which is not much of late) because I think it is unfair to try to change the rules on someone after they've been calling you something for over 20 years. And I think she's being a bit pretentious. I did enjoy the conversation when she told my mom that she and dad had mispronounced her name for all these years though. Good stuff.

I have a friend who has been trying to transition from his first name to his middle name because he thinks it sounds cooler. It's a bitch to remember what to call him, but I think he's been pretty successful. The transition has taken him about three years, and his leaving his former job and friends and getting a new set of hangers on helped.

My best friend went by the diminutive of her name our entire lives. At some point in law school she decided to go by the full name, and now everyone calls her the full except for her family and me. It's weird talking to her husband who has never known her by the name she grew up answering to.