Sorry, I thought it was one of the different forms derived from Katherine
You’re right, the name is derived from Katherine. But I would never refer to myself as a Katherine.
(Anyway, I was just joking 
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My mum always used to get annoyed when people called her Joanne instead of Joanna.
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Same, and seconded I was christened Katie and tend to shorten it to Kate.
I find it really weird when people shorten others’ names without any indication that they go by that.
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Oh that´s a surprise, I thought it was the other way round.
See, you are unique! Uniquely diabolic!
See, I’ve had other people think that in the past, but I find it odd since ‘Kate’ is clearly shorter than ‘Katie’.
That’s right. Mwahaha! MWAHAH- *chokes on grape*
Yeah but nicknames aren´t always about being shorter but being…cuter…for lack of a better word.
Kate sounds more formal than Katie. I wouldn´t call a Kate a Katie unless she was a real good friend.
That’s interesting. I hear it the other way round. But that might be because ‘KATIE!’ usually means my mum is telling me off.
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Kat would be even shorter. 
It would be, but I think most Kats are Katherines originally. That might just be the people I know though.
Please don’t joke about spelling errors.
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So anyway, if you rather be called Kate than Katie I´ll take notice. 
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I use Kat as my name in videogames, but nowhere else. Probably because I was asked to enter a nickname for some game or other in the past, and I don’t really have any nicknames.
Except more recently, my friend I studied German with calls me Katja (the j pronounced as a ‘y’) 
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Common name in germany. It´s russian I believe.
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Yes, but I haven’t heard that name for years…
You maybe need to get out a bit more…
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All this talk of British Katies and now I have that Libertines song in my head, What Katie Did.
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Never!
Hey, no worries! I´m with you actually:
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You’re capable of going off topic even in a topic about memes.
That’s some real talent here!
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I got given soooo many copies of that book as a child…