Do you have a nickname? After three years of living in LA it suddenly hit me: do any of my American friends have nicknames? So I took to Facebook, and a bit of investigative journalism to get to the bottom of it and see if this is another one of those differences between Americans and Australians. The differences between Americans and Australians: Nicknames I caught up with an old friend from my old school days the other day; it was so great to catch up.  I think it’s been (ahem) 20 years since we’ve seen each other. How time flies by. She still sees a lot of the people I went to school with, and the boys we’d hang out with.  So naturally we took a trip down memory lane. She was updating me all the boys she stills sees from my prime days: did you know him?; what about such-and-such; do you still see those guys? I realised that from the names we were talking about (ears burning boys?!) not one of them was referred to by their first name: Pig, Belly, Sul, Dom, Kerr-ee (not Kerry but the last name Kerr with an ‘e’ on the end), Hendo, Big Thommo, […]

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