mmmmmm...Bernadette...
There’s “Bert”...that’s not too bad. Bernadette just isn’t very shortenable. They don’t shorten it.
mmmmmm...Bernadette...
Yeah but probably it will get shortened at some point... or she’ll get saddled with a nickname.
(cheating on my homework and looking over story notes) Did I mention that thanks to time shifting and spells, characters who were born ten or fifteen years apart end up the same age? That makes for headaches on my part.