Most people if pressed
would not admit to giving a name to an inanimate object, especially men.
Well I can tell you
now that 90% of them would be lying and the rest probably didn’t understand the
question.
The commonest object,
by some distance, to be endowed with a pet name, is the car and more often than
not it will be a feminine name.
This is because we
perceive that a cars personality is inherently female.
The reasons for this
are quite obvious when you think about it, because they are high maintenance
and expensive to keep, they’re unpredictable, temperamental, they only respond
when you speak nicely to them and you need to endlessly accessorize.
For my part I have a
dark blue Ford Fiesta which I bought brand new and I call her Abby and I did
this because it was the Abbey National who loaned me the money to buy her.