I'm shocked at how often I'm asked to spell my first name. It's the past tense of draw people. I also get a disturbing number of messed up spellings of my first name, I just boggle. My last name I understand being butchered, it's not common and it was originally gaelic, so it's a mess.
And remember, if you hurt her, I will beat you to death with a shovel.
Willow ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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NoiseDesign - Sep 28, 2011 12:53:50 pm PDT #419 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
Calli - Sep 28, 2011 1:04:54 pm PDT #420 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My last name is an oddly spelled version of a common word. I just go straight for the spelling.
smonster - Sep 28, 2011 1:10:36 pm PDT #421 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
ND, I worked with someone who spelled his first name (same as yours) with a "u".
Cass - Sep 28, 2011 1:25:13 pm PDT #422 of 30001
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
ND, I worked with someone who spelled his first name (same as yours) with a "u".
Was he a fantastically deranged vampire in a Joss show?
lisah - Sep 28, 2011 1:49:59 pm PDT #423 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
We sing my mother's maiden name to the tune of some old song that I can no longer remember because if I try to sing it I end up sing spelling my mother's maiden name! Which is not a particularly hard or complicated name but it is Irish and there are many variant spellings of it (including Nora's last name).
beekaytee - Sep 28, 2011 2:17:51 pm PDT #424 of 30001
Compassionately intolerant
My first name is the Scots spelling of a very common American spelling. I can spell it endlessly (which I do), but people's brains just fill in the blank with the American spelling.
The hyphen in my last name is less of an issue than it used to be but I think I pronounce it badly. Too squishy or something because I end up spelling it a lot.
Two super common names stuck together makes them too complex.
§ ita § - Sep 28, 2011 2:21:01 pm PDT #425 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I love retail people's faces when they ask my name and I either tell them just my surname, or I start with my surname and then pronounce and spell "ita". There's usually a look of "fuck you, that's not what I ... oh, good point, what the hell did you just say again?"
WindSparrow - Sep 28, 2011 2:31:44 pm PDT #426 of 30001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Ginger and lcat, thank you so much for the link - I emailed it to Daniel. He won't be able to make use of it for a while, but it is worth checking out. I do agree that the same work with reasonable hours and not spending 2 hours on the road every damn day should be considerably less soul-sucking.
smonster - Sep 28, 2011 2:43:59 pm PDT #427 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
No advice for DCJ at the moment, but lots more loving thoughts.
Calli - Sep 28, 2011 2:59:34 pm PDT #428 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I'm glad Daniel's improving a bit. Sorry he's stuck in a hospital for another two weeks, but with any luck they'll be able to knock out the infection for good.