I feel her pain. I, too, have an often mispronounced name and sometimes it helps to put it in relation to another more common word.....like she did.
That said....the whole trend of spelling names in inventive (or sloppy) ways and declaring them pronounced in odd ways only paves the road to lots of therapy sessions in 10-20 years for the then frankly confused young adults.
They say the "Laughter is the Best Medicine", and I always get a laugh from you!
ReplyDeleteHea, hea hea! (without the Es)
ReplyDeleteSnorting tea through my nose is medically contra-indicated, blast you!
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Ha! sounds like a keeper, good sense of humour.
ReplyDeleteDuhh. Y'mean like the bird, just like the bird?
ReplyDeleteSeriously, there was a patient that showed up regularly in the ER whose name was Candida, not Candi, nor Candide, but Candida like in 'albicans'.
Is that an Artisanal name?
ReplyDeleteI used to think they were saying "dire rear."
ReplyDeleteAs a child, I always thought it was spelled "Dire rear" ;-)
ReplyDeleteI guess we know her schoolyard nickname now. Poor girl
ReplyDeleteI often give my last name as "Parkinson, like the disease"
ReplyDeleteso that people will have a clue how to spell it.
@Parkinson,
ReplyDeleteMove to the Saudi Arabia,
then you can be Sheik Parkinson ;-)
Someone beat me to the flightless bird comment.
ReplyDeleteI feel her pain. I, too, have an often mispronounced name and sometimes it helps to put it in relation to another more common word.....like she did.
ReplyDeleteThat said....the whole trend of spelling names in inventive (or sloppy) ways and declaring them pronounced in odd ways only paves the road to lots of therapy sessions in 10-20 years for the then frankly confused young adults.
My husband's name is so weird and hard to play on until one friend called him Hormone Compost. It's been his charming sobriquet ever since.
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