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Terence Eden

🆕 blog! “Ter[ence|ry]”

My name is confusing. I don't mean that people constantly misspell it, but that no-one seems what I'm called. Let me explain.

British parents have this weird habit of giving their children long formal names which are routinely shortened to a diminutive version. Alfred becomes Alf, Barbara becomes Babs, Christopher becomes Chris - all the way down to the Ts where Terence becomes …

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@Edent my parents go as far as sometime calling me by an even longer version of my given name. I answer to bob, Rob or Robert. When I started Uni is when I chose bob. i keep on havign to remember that you have a real name which is isnt edent.

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