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To: Kid Shelleen

I have an anglicized celtic last name, that ought to be a slam dunk for anglosaxons to pronounce. They get it wrong most of the time.

These people need a life, or barring that, a good, harmless hobby.


2 posted on 04/06/2021 1:40:06 PM PDT by RedElement
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To: RedElement

was it Sum Ting Wong?


8 posted on 04/06/2021 1:45:38 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: RedElement

was it Sum Ting Wong?


9 posted on 04/06/2021 1:45:46 PM PDT by mfish13 (Elections have Consequences.)
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To: RedElement

“I have an anglicized celtic last name, that ought to be a slam dunk for anglosaxons to pronounce. They get it wrong most of the time.

These people need a life, or barring that, a good, harmless hobby.”

Mine too.....I have often in the back of my mind thought it was an intentional dis but but always shrug it off as being part of life get used to it.

Others should do the same.


22 posted on 04/06/2021 1:52:50 PM PDT by traderrob6
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To: RedElement

“These people need a life, or barring that, a good, harmless hobby.”

Really? All they need is a “life” or a “hobby”? The evil forces pulling these puppet strings are meticulously setting up a system for Soviet style Gulags, with US as the “guests”. But I guess just a good old “hobby” would bring them right back to their senses......


39 posted on 04/06/2021 2:00:29 PM PDT by NYAmerican
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To: RedElement

I have a Celtic family name that even I mispronounce all the time (easier that way).


72 posted on 04/06/2021 2:47:35 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: RedElement

My real name is “Smith,” but it’s pronounced “Jones.”

Most people really mangle my name.

My preferred personal pronoun is “Supreme Galactic Ruler,” but I’m constantly offended when people don’t call me that.


84 posted on 04/06/2021 3:30:56 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: RedElement
LOL   Well my name is as English as the day is long from up near Lancashire and it still gets mangled every other time a person attempts to read it.
91 posted on 04/06/2021 3:44:54 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: RedElement

my husband and I always have to spell his last name...its not long but has letters at the end that often get misinterpreted...


112 posted on 04/07/2021 12:25:01 AM PDT by cherry (we are the Remnant)
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