From: Steve Ewing 

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:31:28 -0400, James Adams  wrote:

> I went through the same thing vis-a-vis Jim/Jimmy.  Parents, sisters,
> and people who knew me from 40 years ago call me Jimmy.  It didn't seem
> worth the effort to change them.  My wife has always known me as Jim. She
> says it still throws her when we're around the family and they all
> call me Jimmy.

I had a guy working for me whose sister was in the billing dept.  She
called him "Billy"; I insisted on calling him "Bill",
reasoning that at his age (he was 21-ish) he had outgrown it.  Dunno if it
took; haven't seen him in a while.

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Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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