Bastardized
More bastardizations of my first name (as heard over the telephone just this morning):
- Lynnette
- Walette
- Celeste
- Allan
03 OCT
2005
2005
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Valette has lived in Alaska all of her life and loves the ocean, being barefoot, the way Steve eats fried rice, and snorgling Olive's neck fur.
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I'm just curious how in hell one could get Allan from valette.
just be happy your last name isn't "conlin".
I definitely understand your eye-rolling frustration. People no like the thinky. They hear the word, they even repeat back the letters, but they generally insist on calling you something completely different.
I would guess that if I mumbled my name such that the listener heard neither the V nor the Ts, s/he could extrapolate Allan from uh-leh.
For some reason, people keep calling me "Robert".
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