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HelpRe: We talk about the slaughter of spellings, what about pronunciations?
in reply to a message by Speranza
Not sure if I've ever mentioned it, but I went to high school with a kid whose first name was the same as your last name. I always thought it was a neat name, plus he had a fun alliterative hyphenated last name. Not sure if he ever had pronunciation issues with it. It doesn't seem likely to be a name that would have issues, but you never know with people!
Your last story reminds me of how once in the days of answering machines a message got left for "Darth." My dad's name is Garth.
Your last story reminds me of how once in the days of answering machines a message got left for "Darth." My dad's name is Garth.
This message was edited 3/25/2011, 9:28 AM
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No I didn't know that! Cool. When I went on line first years ago and googled my name(as you do) I was surprised by all the people called that - it seems to be popular with Turkish people and Asian Americans.
I don't have as many problems as I used to do since I moved to the West Coast since it is more common here. It is still a rare name - I have only ever met two people with my surname who are not related to me. There is a notorious woman who shares her last name with me who was jailed for paying someone to murder her husband so now I get "Oh any relation to X. Ha, ha!"
I don't know how people can't spell it since it rhymes with a popular Irish first name. Grr! They stick an o or e or a instead of the i!
I love the Darth story.
I don't have as many problems as I used to do since I moved to the West Coast since it is more common here. It is still a rare name - I have only ever met two people with my surname who are not related to me. There is a notorious woman who shares her last name with me who was jailed for paying someone to murder her husband so now I get "Oh any relation to X. Ha, ha!"
I don't know how people can't spell it since it rhymes with a popular Irish first name. Grr! They stick an o or e or a instead of the i!
I love the Darth story.
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