But we called him by his abridged name (Just never to his face).

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She called him by his guerrilla name 'Everardo'.

BBC

Kathy and Zeitoun -- most people called him by his last name because they couldn't pronounce his first -- ran a company, Zeitoun A. Painting Contractor LLC, and every day their crews, their clients, everyone with a phone and their number, seemed to think that once the clock struck six-thirty, it was appropriate to call.

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He called me Mary because I had told him my middle name was Mary and I was called by that name at home, although my middle name was really Lynn.

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