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My mother used to call me Clyde Michael when she was angry at me. Which would make me laugh, because I don't know where Clyde came from. Which would make her angrier.
Pärlemor (mother-of-Pearl) is the recent most popular... ;) Else I am called "åskling", a pun on älskling (darling). My mother has tenthousand nicknames for me, from Charlie to fjant (silly), and my grandmother calls me Johanna.
When feeling affectionate, my Scottish Grandmother used to call me "Tarrama Toots" or "Toots Matarra" I've no idea why, maybe its from an old song or something. The rest of the time I was a "wee midden" or a "wee besom" or the "wee yin" or worst of all a "sassenach". Its no wonder I have a weird accent.
My cats call me "meow" which I hope is Feline for "mum". It's probably something worse.
The mister calls me "baby", "love(y)", "darling" (yes, he is awesome; no, you cannot have him). Or "Deb" when he wants to irk me.
My family calls me "Debi" except for mum who calls me "Deborah" and my oldest bro calls me "Sis". I was "George" when I was growing up (I have four brothers and that was my "boy" name, I guess).
My brothers call be Andge, because of the older of the two's soft /r/, which turned Andrew into Anjoo (I call him Peedge in response). My mom hates it, for some reason.
Most people call me Penks, but my Grandma calls me Danielito, which I hate, and a friend of my parents calls me Junior (I have the same name as my father), which I really, really hate.
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