If you request a copy of a birth certificate or similar and it arrives with
a strange spelling of a name, don't presume that it is correct, especially
if you can back it up with other documents.
When we applied for our marriage license, the lady at the desk told my
husband that his future
My name is spelled as Vickie on my birth certificate; yet most people spell
it every way but the correct way. At work, there is a Vicky. Even when
people see my name spelled correctly in the To: field on the e-mail, they
know my name is spelled Vickie, or they see that I signed the prior e-mail
My name, Jean, in the UK and a lot of other countries is female. In France
(and probably others), it's male.
Name confusions can be interesting and in some cases rather worrying. My
father-in-law was born in 1919 and was always known as 'Ted', which for as
long as anyone can remember, he said
Wow! What an interesting thread.
Personally, I cannot abide being called Miss, Mrs or Ms. Never could, before
marriage, during marriage, or after, always hated them, from as far back as I
can remember. I see them as sexist and degrading to women, since their sole
purpose is to indicate
At work we had a Chinese secretary. One day she reorganized our pigeon
holes and mine said: Angus (instead of Agnes).
I went to see her and told her that I may be a cow, but I am not
Scottish! She did not understand it, but was enlightened by one of her
colleagues. The upshot was that I
On 28 Aug 2006, at 13:52, Jean Nathan wrote:
So when he died, we were most interested to see if he'd got married
under the name of Edward or Edwin. If Edward, would it mean that he
and his wife weren't really married?
No it wouldn't - in England your name is what you call yourself; a
change
Dear Lise-Aurore,
And then, there's the usage in French, where I am referred to as Madame le
docteur. I'm not to crazy about that, but it is difficult to make people
believe that I'm a Monsieur. I was rather distressed this spring, when
everyone in France seemed to want to call me Mademoiselle.
Hi All,
This thread is making me chuckle!When I first went to Newcastle, in the
north of England, I couldn't wait for someone - anyone! - to call me 'Pet'.
And when I stopped to ask for directions, I could have kissed the chappie
who obliged by calling me 'Pet' - I have never thought that
Carol wrote:
This thread is making me chuckle!When I first went to Newcastle, in the
north of England, I couldn't wait for someone - anyone! - to call me 'Pet'.
In some areas you could be called be called by the
not-intended-to-be-derogatory term of chuck or lass, and in Scotland
hen.
Re: Leslie/Lesley. It may be a generation/regional thing. When I was a child in
southern Ontario in the 60s, in my pre-Avital incarnation, kids would say to me,
'Leslie'? That's a *boy's* name! Yet, in the 70s, my high school phys ed class
had *four* female Leslies. In fact I don't think I ever
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