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I disagree entirely. The point is not to get nominated, the point is to win the award. Suppose there's a race you're qualified to enter, and you can register or have other people register you for. It's not disgraceful to enter yourself, because it doesn't mean you've made yourself win, you've...

What kind of award is it? You might have to nominate yourself to get considered for the award. You don't actually get the award just because you nominate yourself, you just get in the running, so nominating yourself doesn't give you an unfair advantage. They just give the option to nominate...

"Douchy"? Ambo is a perfectly acceptable way of shortening the word. Let's consider this from a purely linguistic view: Our original word is "Ambulance". We want to shorten it to a one- or two-syllable word. 1) We could simply cut off half of the word, and go with "Ambu". However...