Bastardized
October 3, 2005
More bastardizations of my first name (as heard over the telephone just this morning):
- Lynnette
- Walette
- Celeste
- Allan
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4 Comments
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".