I was thinking about this today also, becuase I have horrible spelling. But then I thought, I hate online spell checkers, like the hotmail one, that is just a pain. It's just as easy to copy your text over to a word processor and paste it back. Or learn how to spell.

my $name = 'Ben Kittrell';
$name=~s/^(.+)\s(.).+$/\L$1$2/g;
my $nick = 'tha' . $name . 'sta';
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