One day my daughter called and said Emily (2) asked for me, but called me Biba. When she was 5, I asked her why and she said, “I didn’t really like Anderson”. – Sandra (Tyngsboro, MA) Beppe Beppe and Pakke–Are the Frisian Dutch name for Grandma and Grandpa. Our grands have...
The most common nickname for the Dachshund is Wiener Dog. There are various stories of how Dachshunds got this nickname but all involve the selling of sausages in Vienna (Wien), Austria (source). The stories go something like this: