Talk:Teresa

Diminutives

There seems to be a misunderstanding of the phenomenon diminutives of names in languages other than English. Many diminutives, for instance in Polish listed in this article as "variants" of names. In fact in Polish, and other Slavic languages, as well as in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, etc, there is a sharp distinction between a "given" name, as it is spelled in the birth certificate, and later in all the pesonal documents, and all the diminutives (hypokoristics), nicknames, etc. The dimiunutives are never registered in any official register and never used as part of the official full name. They are just made for use in the family and among close friends, and their use decreases sharply with the adulthood. One exception is the use of diminutives as stage names for pop artists, but this is a very new phenomomenon, and mostly in the teenager subculture. There are some first names derived from diminutives in foreign languages, like Aneta in Polish, from French Anette (a diminutive of Anne), but never of native names. Concerning the name Teresa, there is only one variant in Polish: Teresa, all other quoted forms are diminutives. --Jidu Boite (talk) 06:46, 18 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Alternative spelling "Therasa"

A quick Wikipedia search lists 11 results with people named Therasa (with a middle A and not E). Should this be considered an alternative spelling of Theresa? Linhart.stephen (talk) 12:06, 19 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]