Nicknames can be hurtful, harmful…
Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive. Thomas Chandler Haliburton – Nova Scotian-Canadian-English politician and author.
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Novelist Silviana Wood uses nicknames prodigiously in her writings.