Memo

[bubosquared]

To: People
From: Me
Re: Spelling of my name

Yo!

It's Es Oh Ef I Ee. Sofie. With a fucking F! Get it? No ph in sight.

Boom shaka,
Sofie Werkers

(Not meant for any of you, btw. Am pissed off at work-related people. Grrr.)

Comments

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

My sympathies. The name I was born with has no less than a dozen legitimate spellings. AND my last name was Nance (one syllable, phonetic nantz), so I got the added variable of reversing my names (also my first name was a legitimate last name as well!) and getting called Nancy, which used to piss me off entirely too much...

At least no one misspells my name now. MisPRONOUNCE it, yes. (There's a reason everybody calls me Ro. I hate being called i-ROW-she. If you can't say ee-row-SHEE then just say Ro. :) But nobody misspells it, because everybody ASKS how to spell it.

Random note of the day: the award for the worst possible pronounciation of my name goes to my husband's grandmother who has been known to call me eye-ROW-sha, with a pronounced Texan drawl. (And no, I don't blink an eye at it when she does it. I have no clue how old she is, but she doesn't need to be harangued over her inability to speak Japanese! *G* I just try to encourage them to call me Ro or Iro and leave it at that.)