Pet Names

[2sp_]

Following on from a serious thread in B&S, I was just wondering if anyone has any objections to others calling them by generic pet names?

I can't stand being called Hun, Babe or Love.

Not too fond of Madam either.

[B00]

Meh, none of those bother me in the slightest.

I've been called far worse ;-)

[campbellking]

Duck. Did my first ever student placement at a hospital in Worksop, and as regularly referred to as that.

[2sp_]

I suppose that is a valid point, B00, there are worse things to be called! It just grates me!

[Mamyalynne]

Matron.

[2sp_]

campbellking, I've never heard Duck before. Obviously I've heard of ducks before, but never as a pet name.

Now I'm curious about localised pet names...

[Prudie]

Dear really irritates me and if he calls me it I know it's to irritate me! I like hun and babe though.

[Psybbo]

Dear, hen or chick annoys me

[2sp_]

My mental mother used to call me Lamb, she did it up until I was in my mid twenties. She even called me it in front of my friends. I've only just lived it down.

[ummmm]

Nothing would bother me. They can call me whatever they like. Like I said in the other thread I probably wouldn't even notice.

[campbellking]

Duck I think tends to be mainly north Notts area (Mansfield etc), also common in Stoke on Trent.
Other placements were in Yorkshire, never actually minded being called 'love'

[2sp_]

Pet is quite a common one in Glasgow and I don't actually mind that one.

[gness]

If you live in Kettering you're...duck...or me duck...☺

I don't really mind pet names and probably use them more than many abers but the one thing that really grates is......Bless.

How's Mr G?.......Poorly today......Awwww....Bless.

[2sp_]

gness, Bless is a bad one, especially when twinned with that face...

[LyndaB]

I call everyone 'love'. It's not meant to be patronising or demeaning in any way, and if anyone takes it like that, I think it's their problem.

[woofgang]

as I said on the other thread, I think it depends on the person who is doing the calling.

[Han-Valen]

What kind of face... or that not tw..

[jakep]

I was called 'me duck' by a lovely local lady I helped in Cromer. I liked it.

[woofgang]

LyndaB, that's an okay attitude in your private life but not at work!

[ummmm]

'me duck' is used a lot in Northampton.

[2sp_]

I don't mind friends and family calling me pet names, but not when it's shop assistants, waiters, taxi drivers, or in fact any random stranger.