Re: You're in for a very rough ride.
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If you're in PA, you're quite fine.
:-) You'll be teased, but that's it. And yep - English people tend to be almost worshipped in the US, it seems. :-)
:-) You'll be teased, but that's it. And yep - English people tend to be almost worshipped in the US, it seems. :-)
Might not even be teased
Merely questioned a few times. There are so many unusual variant spellings for everything these days, and so many cross-gender sorts of names, I just don't think it's that big a deal. And I'm the mother of teenagers in culturally conservative Texas. I asked my son what he thought, and his answer was typically teen: "Whatever, dude."
I think you'll be fine, and welcome to the USA!
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon
Merely questioned a few times. There are so many unusual variant spellings for everything these days, and so many cross-gender sorts of names, I just don't think it's that big a deal. And I'm the mother of teenagers in culturally conservative Texas. I asked my son what he thought, and his answer was typically teen: "Whatever, dude."
I think you'll be fine, and welcome to the USA!
~Lillian~
Proud daughter of Ann and John
Proud sister of Lauren and Leah
Proud wife of David
Proud mother of Alexander, Scarlett, Sophia, and Gideon