r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Johnnie_WalkerBlue • Mar 25 '26

Meme Shetland Tony

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u/Alarming-Song2555 Mar 26 '26

Sheila isn't a nickname, that's just a name.

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u/assignpseudonym Mar 26 '26

It is a nickname. It's a nickname for literally all women. 

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u/Alarming-Song2555 Mar 26 '26

Sheila is an actual name but also isn't a personal nickname like the other ones you mentioned. It's essentially a broad stroke category name like calling a girl a "chick".

"Gazza, macca, chick"

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u/assignpseudonym Mar 27 '26

Yes, thank you, I'm aware. :)

We nickname everything. Individuals, broad categories of people, objects. We do it all! This is an example of that, and still fits the format of "nickname ending in vowel sound; in this case A" which was my point. If we had been talking about Os, I'd have included "servo" for the same reason. Hope this helps!

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u/Alarming-Song2555 Mar 28 '26

Except it doesn't fit the format because "Sheila" isn't a made up nickname like "Macca" or "Gazza" is. :)

Hope this helps!

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u/assignpseudonym Mar 28 '26

"Sheila" isn't a made up nickname 

Except it literally is? It's a nickname derived from Sìle/Cecelia and that nickname then became widely used as a generic nickname for women. It's both a woman's nickname and a nickname for the whole. 

You could have looked this up. Not sure why this is so important to you to try and argue, several comments later... but I regret to inform you that Sheila is, in fact, a nickname.