SC - Names (OT)
Bonne of Traquair
oftraquair at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 21 15:57:55 PST 1999
>
>I've always been shocked at how people stumble over my married last
name,
>Farnsworth. To me it seems pretty straight forward, spelled
phonetically
>even. Some variations (when telemarketers eventually spit it out, and
>believe me they are challenged by this *difficult* name!) include:
>Fransworth, Farmsworth, Frankswort, Farnesworth, Farnsroth, and even
>Sarnesworth. My favorite came as a typo on junkmail: Faensworkt
For some reason, telemarketers, and others, insist upon pronouncing my
husband's last name as Mick-Gain, with a long A sound, instead of
properly, Mack-Gan, short a in both syllables.
Bonne (whom some call Bun and others Bonnie) mka Karen Lyons-McGann
(and let me tell you, the combined last name really throws people who
are hearing it instead of seeing it!)
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