I've been called Cricket and Clitter before

On 10/22/07, Ben Doom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Yeah.  In the rural south, I'm "Benjerman".  Where the heck does the R
> come from?  I had one person, when I corrected them, tell me it didn't
> matter.  I started mispronouncing her name.  I don't remember offhand
> what it was, but I do remember that there was a way of pronouncing it
> that was bordering on rude.  She started calling me Ben.
>
> --BenD
>
> Shawna Hampton wrote:
> > Ugh, the name thing has always been an issue for me ... how many ways
> can
> > you possibly pronounce "Shawna" ??? It's "Shawn" with an "uh" at the end
> ...
> >
> > I've heard it all, though.
> >
> > SHAH (short a) - nuh (as in Shanna)
> > SHAY (long a) - nuh
> >
> > And my personal favorite, which just cropped up in the last ten years or
> so
> > --
> >
> > Shuh - WAH - nuh
> >
> > I just pretty much answer to anything, and forget trying to get it
> spelled
> > right. It's all good, though -- my name's pretty tame compared to what's
> out
> > there now.
>
>
> 

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