How do you spell Katherine?

KateBob

My great aunt was Elizabeth shortened to Beth, I quite like that.

The thing that always got me was shortened names that weren't shorter, ie Harry for Henry or Jack for John.

Georgiegirl256

My aunty is known as Sally, until about 9 years ago, I didn't realise it was short for Sarah!

loobylou2

DD1 Is Catherine on her birth certificate as chosen by her dad, however she also gets called Katey which was the name on her hospital birth record chosen by myself, she is also called Cathy by her teachers, Cat, Catarina, Kathryn, Cate, Kate, Katherine and a whole host of different spellings of her name!!!! Don't think it bothers her though in fact its become a bit of a family joke and she sometimes has to explain to friends that although the long and formal spelling of her name is Catherine the shortened version which she prefers to use and which we all use is Katey. I'm English and her dad is Scottish and when she was born there was a real discussion about how it should be spelt which 14 years on has never been quite fully resolved!!! Hasn't been a problem though.

neverdespairgirl

I've also come across Lily as short for Olivia.

NinjaSavingKat

I am a Katherine so that sounds just fine to me!.

Lunar_Eclipse

I've known a Catherine, Katherine & Cathryn.

I have a personal preference for Catherine. In general, I like the letter 'C' but am not so keen on 'K'. No idea why, I must like curves!

dragonette

paulineb wrote: »

Lanarkshire people do speak a bit funny, maybe Wishaw people speak the funniest out of all of them, obviously you can pronounce things differently even from ten miles away.

Yes, yes we do being from Motherwell, I also hear Cather-ine and Cather-een

And Caitlyn is *not* considered to be to be the same name, nor is Kathleen. Weird how strong differentiations in language persist in some areas and not others

Girlzmum

My youngest daughter is Catherine but shortened to Katie, just to complicate matters it's actually her middle name!

Emmylou_2

My GCSE form group had three people with that name.

There was one Kathryn (known as Kathryn), one Katherine (known as Kate) and one Catherine (known as Cat).

Gillyx

I'm from Lanarkshire, and would say Catherine, not Cath-reen, but I do hear the latter around these parts :eek:

For the record definitely Gillian with a soft G!