I ran with a gang in Silver Spring, white pre-teen lower middle class kids - and we never had nicknames. One of my favorite Stephen King novels, "It", all the characters have nicknames. Adult characters on Broadway that have nicknames are usually just their first names, like Auntie Mame is Mame and Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity is just aka Charity
I ran with a gang in Silver Spring, white pre-teen lower middle class kids - and we never had nicknames. One of my favorite Stephen King novels, "It", all the characters have nicknames. Adult characters on Broadway that have nicknames are usually just their first names, like Auntie Mame is Mame and Charity Hope Valentine in Sweet Charity is just aka Charity