I don't get what is so hard about saying my name the way I just said it!

Yeah, welcome to my world. It's just a "t." It's nothing complicated or foreign to the US or UK ear. Everyone usually says it right once.

Oh, and in case people here are wondering how to pronounce my name: just like "shit", but replace the t with an almost non-existing r (Israelis don't pronounce r's).

It should sound like "she" with emphasis which ends weird on the "e" part, due to the almost non-existing r.

WRT: Names. Seriously, people are just not paying attention. Y'all's names are not that difficult. I've got the easiest name ever and people still mess it up because they just do not listen.

Names, argh. I'm 46 and still trying to decide what my name should be. My legal first name is Leone (lee-OHN), and growing up in the South, no one could get my name right. They were trying to make it be something they already knew. I got called Leonie, Leon, Iona, Lorina, I don't know where the "r" came from either. I got tired of having to spell it and correct pronunciation all the time, so I started going by my middle name in college. I thought, no one will mess up Elizabeth! I had no idea people would insist on calling me Beth or Lizzie. And ever since 9/11 I've had the worst trouble with it, because *everything*, even my tax return, is in the name "Elizabeth Lastname" except for my driver's license, which both NJ and VA insisted had to match my birth certificate. And then my new bank account put my full name on the account, even though I specifically asked them not to, but the mortgage I got from the *same bank* has me as "Elizabeth L. Lastname". So nothing matches, and most of it isn't right. I've been told I should change my name legally, and I guess I should, but it annoys me that I should have to do through all that just because I want to use my middle name.

Don't get me started on my last name. I'm thinking of changing that, too.

My BFF's name is Lauren. When we lived in England, people kept thinking that her name was Maureen.

My legal first name is Leone

It's my mom's second name (after her late uncle, Leon).

My BFF's name is Lauren. When we lived in England, people kept thinking that her name was Maureen.

I get Deborah a lot.

also- I was so slammed this morning, I didn't have a chance to ask for job~ma for my 10am second interview, but I think I did OK, so I request hire~ma to be directed at the people making the decision this week.

I was vibing for you, Nora. Hire-ma now being directed across the Charles.

My sister got Margery. If you only kinda just heard her name, might be excusable. If you were in her class for years, decidedly less so. Which is how it went down.

Shir, really? That's cool - I love finding other women with my name!

Thanks for explaining how to pronounce your name. If I ever get to meet you, maybe I'll even get it right!