Our son is called Timothy. In order to make it easier for our German relatives this was shortened to Timo (which we thought was terribly creative not realising that Timo on its own had become widely popular at the time time). He is now 35 and everytimotime I write the word “time” my fingers type timo and I have to go back, and replace the o with an e. Every timo time!
This photo of him was taken a long timo time ago, in 2000, for the his school’s millenium parade celebrating famous people in timo time. He decided to go as Martin Luther King (which suited me fine, since it was a much easier costume than the ones for all the Tut-ankh-Amuns, Henry VIIIs, and even Julius Cesars.
Ragtag Daily Prompt: Timo Time
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Timo is/ was a popular name in Finland between 1950-1980
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Yes, the German Timo is considered of Finnish origin. For us it was just a way to abbreviate Timothy without the th and making it a two syllable word (because our lats name is only one syllable).
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Yes, I did understand that 😀
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Clever 🙌
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😁
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I love the name Timo- it has so much more character to me than the ordinary Timothy.
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I’ve always liked Timothy but the th was just too much of an obstacle for the grandmas.
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Timo sounds good! Did he like being called ‘Timo’?
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Oh, it’s his first choice. However he signs with his full name, i.e. Timothy + a South African name in Zulu. But we never called him anything but Timo, even when we lived in English speaking countries, even his British and American teachers called him Timo.
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Wonderful! He looks adorable in that photo.
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He was a cute kid.
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👍🏼
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