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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/46989
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/46989
License name: CC BY-SA 3.0
License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Does the character call him "G" or "Mr. G?"

I'm thinking of in _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ how Faith refers to everyone, so she calls Buffy "B".

And The Fonz in _Happy Days_ calls everyone "Mrs. C." or whatever - it's like "as formal as he can do."

And do people use first-initials as nicknames if they don't rhyme with Bee? (I mean, 007 has Q and M, but they're designations more than nicknames: M for MI-5, Q for Quartermaster)

**Also, some things due suit the eye more than the ear:** Example = Wonder Woman. It makes sense on the comic page for people to call her "WW," but to say that aloud in a movie is just wrong - it's 6 syllables instead of 4, while the print version is 2 characters instead of 12.

So for your writing, do you "hear" the character called G by the other character? Do other names feel like they "sound right?" Then go with that.

But some writers are more visual or focused on the etymology in some word/name choices: the name Hermione Granger - many readers didn't know how it was pronounced (hence the scene in Goblet of Fire), but the meaning of it, Earthly Worker of the Granary (aka very mundane/muggleborn) might have overcome the "ear".

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