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"Ste" as a nickname for Steven/Stephen?
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Is this a very Northern thing?
I've been "Ste" as far as I can remember but when I went to uni people from daan Souf said they weren't really familiar with it.
Further to that, people online thought my name was "Steh" (like "meh") and not "Stee" (as in "Ste" from Steven
).
I've seen a few people on the forums with this name, too, but they all seem to be from oop Norf.
I've been "Ste" as far as I can remember but when I went to uni people from daan Souf said they weren't really familiar with it.
Further to that, people online thought my name was "Steh" (like "meh") and not "Stee" (as in "Ste" from Steven
).I've seen a few people on the forums with this name, too, but they all seem to be from oop Norf.
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The other one was on Hollyoaks.
A few people from Milton Keynes came up to stay with me whilst I was at uni and they never understood my name. I kept getting called Steve until I spelled my name for them!
I hate Steve (not for other people, but for myself). I think Steve and Steven sound patronising
Ooh, yeah, there's that guy from Hollyoaks, which is a Northern soap. He actually lived near me when I lived in Salford.
Ste? I would pronounce it Stee personally, I'm from Sheffield. I've never known any Ste's though.
I do pretty much hate it though! If I knew a Steven, I would call them Steven!
What's your real name that you hate being called Steve?
Nah, Carmen Queasy is a song title (meant to sound like "calm and queasy").
I pretty much exclusively go by "Ste", well, from everyone who knows me.
Steven is my real name but very few people call me that. Everyone I know calls me "Ste", pronounced exactly like the first part of Steven.
I just don't like Steve. It sounds strange when people call me it
Yes, i think I only heard it from hollyoaks
haha, did you edit my post? I think it'd confuse people if I were a Ste.
I didn't edit anything?
I do confuse people. When I was travelling the UK testing systems I had about 5 names... Steven, Steve, Ste, Stefan... "you".
Look at what I wrote and then what you quoted
Haha, whoops! I somehow managed to type part of my reply within your quote
I guess its bit like Dave or Dan.
Since when has shortening a name to a single syllable been a weird and wacky thing to do?
I'm well familiar with Ste being short for Steve but I've never been called Da (pr. Day) as short for Dave. I've been around for a very long time too!
Not sure, it's the 1st time I've heard described as weird and wacky, so gawd knows when that started?
It hasn't, but with Ste it seems more like a regional thing, whereas the likes of Dan, Stu, Alex etc... are pretty much universal in the UK.
I always point out to them that my name is David and not Dave and they nearly always reply with "oh, sorry Dave!"
I've given up......
Can't you just mispronounce their name in reply?
See how they like it!:D
But if I ever dared to shorten her name from Margaret to Marge, Marg, Maggie or Mag she wouldn't answer me. It really doesn't matter though as I usually refer to her as Witch.:D
That's a pretty common one, well round here it is anyway.