say what?
There's a boy in Alyssa's class this year named Jakub. It seems to happen every year. Last year, there was a girl named Anais who pronounced her name "Ana eese". A lot of people hadn't heard of Anais Nin, and I seriously doubt her parents did too.
When I worked at the bank, a grandmother was opening an account for a granddaughter named Makala. I would pronounce that "Ma-ka-la", just like it sounds. Nope, it's actually Michaela.
And it goes both ways. We've had calls from companies trying to sell Daschel books, and they'll be like, "Are you Daschelle's mother?" (rhymes with Michelle). No, no, no. Why do I have the feeling even if I named him "Mike", people would call him "Meek"?
I have a friend here who said they wished babies already came with names. Not me. I'd have 10 more babies if I could just name them and hand them over once I was tired. No kidding. I had no problem coming up with an abundance of names for both kids, it's just that I've not had partners willing to cooperate with my choices.
I've really regretted naming Alyssa "Alyssa"--it's a top 10 name in the year she was born and she knows Alyssas her own age. People hated my choice of "Ivy", and I was very pointed in the direction of "Sydney", but a friend had a baby girl two months earlier by that name. I never wanted to curse my kids with a name that people wouldn't pronounce correctly or would have a horrible time spelling, but I didn't want them to have something that everyone else had either.
The one thing I hate about my own name is that the government doesn't recognize the apostrophe as a character. I even looked at my name on a computer generated ledger when I was in college, and it was written D?ANNA...which I was actually quite amused with.
I also wish at this point I hadn't hyphenated my name. For one, it took social security 3 tries to get the spelling/hyphenation right, and another thing is, it's so long now, I can't sign anything without cramping it up. Blah.
When I worked at the bank, a grandmother was opening an account for a granddaughter named Makala. I would pronounce that "Ma-ka-la", just like it sounds. Nope, it's actually Michaela.
And it goes both ways. We've had calls from companies trying to sell Daschel books, and they'll be like, "Are you Daschelle's mother?" (rhymes with Michelle). No, no, no. Why do I have the feeling even if I named him "Mike", people would call him "Meek"?
I have a friend here who said they wished babies already came with names. Not me. I'd have 10 more babies if I could just name them and hand them over once I was tired. No kidding. I had no problem coming up with an abundance of names for both kids, it's just that I've not had partners willing to cooperate with my choices.
I've really regretted naming Alyssa "Alyssa"--it's a top 10 name in the year she was born and she knows Alyssas her own age. People hated my choice of "Ivy", and I was very pointed in the direction of "Sydney", but a friend had a baby girl two months earlier by that name. I never wanted to curse my kids with a name that people wouldn't pronounce correctly or would have a horrible time spelling, but I didn't want them to have something that everyone else had either.
The one thing I hate about my own name is that the government doesn't recognize the apostrophe as a character. I even looked at my name on a computer generated ledger when I was in college, and it was written D?ANNA...which I was actually quite amused with.
I also wish at this point I hadn't hyphenated my name. For one, it took social security 3 tries to get the spelling/hyphenation right, and another thing is, it's so long now, I can't sign anything without cramping it up. Blah.