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🆕 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 …

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/03/teren

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Terence Eden’s Blog · Ter[ence|ry]
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@Edent … also, as a result of the title of this blog post I shall forever internally refer to any shenanigans you execute as “terencery”, as in “What kind of fresh terencery has he been up to now?”