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Auburn Annie · 01-31-2005, 08:02 AM

I may have posted this somewhere else on this site, but what the hey....

I'm Auburn Annie, so called by my maternal grandmother to distinguish me from a first cousin, Scranton Annie. We share the same first name - though I have the 'e' at the end ("Anne") and she's plain Ann. But when one or the other of us would stop by to visit, my aunt would say "Ann(e)'s here" and my grandmother would ask, "Which one? Auburn Annie or Scranton Annie?" because my cousin's mother was from Scranton PA while mine was homegrown in Auburn. So in the family I've been Auburn Annie ever since. "Scranton Annie" now lives and works in Philadelphia, so I supppose she could be called "Philly Annie" but Gram is long gone so it doesn't matter. More confusing in our house is if somebody says "Chris called" and we need to distinguish between my sister Chris, my husband's brother Chris, or my sister Terry's husband, Chris.

01-31-2005, 08:02 AM	#7
Auburn Annie Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Upstate New York Posts: 3,101	I may have posted this somewhere else on this site, but what the hey.... I'm Auburn Annie, so called by my maternal grandmother to distinguish me from a first cousin, Scranton Annie. We share the same first name - though I have the 'e' at the end ("Anne") and she's plain Ann. But when one or the other of us would stop by to visit, my aunt would say "Ann(e)'s here" and my grandmother would ask, "Which one? Auburn Annie or Scranton Annie?" because my cousin's mother was from Scranton PA while mine was homegrown in Auburn. So in the family I've been Auburn Annie ever since. "Scranton Annie" now lives and works in Philadelphia, so I supppose she could be called "Philly Annie" but Gram is long gone so it doesn't matter. More confusing in our house is if somebody says "Chris called" and we need to distinguish between my sister Chris, my husband's brother Chris, or my sister Terry's husband, Chris.