Yeah, you're right--English names do work differently from Russian ones on that front. (Like your brother, I'm another person who never gets referred to by the long form of her name, actually.) I guess I just have such a hard time imagining that Gregory would always have been Gregory to everyone, though. He's just not that formal a guy, and such a thing would have been utterly bizarre in his culture (like, if 'Omar' were a name with a common short form, I can't imagine that his inner circle wouldn't have called him that). So it seems very likely to me that this practice came from Elizabeth, and that Philip picked up on calling him that because Elizabeth did. I really do like the idea of her being slow to use American nicknames...
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Date: 2013-08-04 03:01 pm (UTC)-J