bigstrat2003 3 hours ago

When I was a kid, I was very confused by the names of Fleetwood Mac band members. It really threw me for a loop that they had a Lindsay who is a dude, and a Stevie who is a girl, both counter to my intuition about names.

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graemep 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Stevie is Stephanie which has always been very much a girl's name. Abbreviations have a tendency to collide.

	▲	thaumasiotes an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> Stevie is Stephanie which has always been very much a girl's name. Abbreviations have a tendency to collide. Maybe, I guess. That would be one of those "abbreviations" like "Peggy" ("abbreviating" Margaret) that doesn't actually abbreviate the name, and you just have to know that someone out there thinks it's related. "Stevie" for "Steven" follows the ordinary rules of English. For "Stephanie", you'd expect "Steffie".