English 1100
August 24, 2015
Prof. Young
~ What is your nickname and how did you get this name? ~
Well.. When I first started middle school, I and the entire student body realized that there was an absurd amount of kids named Matt and Mike. At every corner of the hallway you would see a Mike and or Matt and if you were to call out to them and say hi, for example "Hey Mike" you would have seven kids stop. turn around. and respond then they would all look at each other confused and wonder to who it was directed to. So in order to avoid all the Matt and Mike chaos; we gave them nicknames. (keep in mind we were all in fifth grade so the nicknames were that elaborate) ... (okay lets be honest they weren't even clever either but we though it was ground breaking and revolutionary) The nicknames we gave them was by just calling them by their last name; or abbreviating their last name. For example for my friend Matt his last name was Riccitelli. So we all called him that or we just abbreviated the last name Riccitelli and called him Ric. Since all of the boys were getting these nicknames the girls wanted in on it too. (cause I mean why not? girls wanted to have some kind of nickname too right?) Anyway that same friend, Matt, is who gave me my nickname. Since my last name is Silva he took away the "a" and replaced it with an "s" creating "Silvs". (Don't ask me how he did it. All I knew at the time was that it was like I was given the most amazing nickname ever) So since he made up Silvs it sort of stuck around with me. My friends and other people would call me that in the hallway. I would end up using Silvs in almost if not all of my usernames for everything. I thought it was pretty cool and I still do. Personally its my favorite. I don't know what is it but I believe it gives my name that little PA - ZAZZ if you know what I mean. It gave it that little something to make it special.
* Fun fact. I also gave him a nickname. Mafru.
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