Re: Buffy's name

["wyrd thing" <wyrd.thing@xxxxxxxxxx>]

<brief de-lurk> 'lo <waves>
Don't know if this is of interest - but is an answer provided to the question of Buffy's name in the UK Buffy mag:
"The name Buffy is usually short for Elisabeth, although the Buffy in 'Buffy Anne Summers' isn't short for anything."
Don't know how official / unofficial that is, but I never knew Buffy was short for Elisabeth before that :o)
<re-lurks>


> I understood that she really was Elisabeth Anne Summers, but couldn't 
> pronounce "Elisabeth" as a small sprog, and it came out like "Buffy" 
> which 
> stuck. I of course could be utterly wrong, but even in California 
> "Buffy is 
> a bit of an odd name for a kid. 
> 
> JP 
> 

I definately remember reading that, but it was in a fic (whose name 
escapes me at the moment). So far as I know that's hwere it originally 
came from. 
Molf 



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I believe it was in Ahn's 'Wedding' Series. Buffy's Grandmother keeps calling her Elizabeth and when people ask 'why?', that is what she tells them.

Chazzman