Er, that's really crucial, fruegal!
Among some of my students, my nickname is 'peddo' - wish I could shake that
one!
AndrewF
>It got to the point that by grade 12 a lot of my friends had trouble
>remembering my real name (since I had been introduced to them as Frugal) and
>at grad a number of them had to catch themselves when the introduced me to
>their family.
>
>After high school I could have probably dropped the name without too much
>difficulty but I didn't really mind it so I continued to use it.
>
>Frequently, I'll spell it with an umlaut on the u. First, this would then
>signify a a greater stress of the u sound and also I think helps indicate
>that it doesn't have anything to do with the actual meaning of the word
>frugal. In email, I tend not to do this because of concerns about people not
>being able to read it.
>
>So there you have it!
>
>--
>Andrew "Frugal" Dacey
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