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Elizabeth is my name. I rarely go by a nickname, but past sobriquets have included Liza and Lizard. Usually only teachers whose first language wasn't English would call me by a short-form. Lizzie, Liz, or Beth. Never Eliza or Ellie, which I might have liked more. Really any moniker is fine really so long as nobody calls me Liz.

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I don't view myself as having a boring name. I think of Queen Elizabeth I or even Elizabeth, mother of John the Baptist. My name has a long and colorful history and I'm proud of it.