My sister-in-law (who happens to be Sueanne Tremendous here on Fluther) adds a “y” and a rhyming work do my name. I used to cringe, now it’s just who I am to her and I love it.
My mother-in-law used to do a deliberately weird misspelling of my name. It irritated the heck out of me. She insisted it was “her” special name for me. I thought it was a fitting expression of her passive-aggressive nature.
@Jeruba: Did she stop misspelling your name or stop being your mother-in-law?
My name is Katharine and I had an uncle who used to call me Katariiiiiiiiiina. It was sweet when we were among family but I suspect it would have been very embarrassing in front of my friends. He died a few years ago and I miss hearing him call me that.
@KatawaGrey, after a while she made a production of stopping the misspelling: “I know you don’t like it the way I wrote it, so I spelled it right on this card.” The aggrieved tone made it sound as if I ought to apologize for having the wrong name. But maybe I just imagined that.
@Jeruba: I am sorry that she is dead, but I have known people who have been like that. It is very annoying and there’s not much you can say without looking like the bad guy.
Ha! Another great VzzBzz question – damn you! ;-)
My s/o – in the first few months of our relationship – used to call me “Honey Bun.”
I really didn’t like that term (don’t know why – just bothered me) and I finally told him.
Now it’s “sweat meat” only because we both saw a “Kathy and Mo” skit where Kathy plays a male redneck and calls the woman he’s drinking with “sweet meat” – we thought that was freakin heelareyuos – so he started using it. I’m ok with that lol
btw – here’s one of their skits – from “Parallel Lives” I thionk the whole show is out on dvd – it’s GREAT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8bMuFup_Ms