If one more person calls me Joy I'm gonna scream

Well, my name is Pamela, as in PamELA. But I get Pam, Pammie, Pambla, Pamella, Pambela, Pameela, Pamula, Pamla, Pamra - lots of immigrants where I've lived and worked who can't say my name.

MY NAME IS NOT JOY!!!!!


It's Joyce!

No it's not almost the same name, it's an ENTIRELY, COMPLELTLY DIFFERENT NAME!!!!

It's not like calling someone named Patrica, Pat, or William, Bill.

GOT THAT????

chai2 wrote:

IMO, there are 3 perfect male names. Perfect in any language.

Paul
Steve and variations
Dave and variations

Paolo, Pavel, Pashka
Dawid, Davidek, Davide
Istvan, Stefek, Etienne, Stefano

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Too Many Daves

by Theodor Geisel
Did I ever tell you that Mrs. McCave
Had twenty-three sons and she named them all Dave?
Well, she did. And that wasn't a smart thing to do.
You see, when she wants one and calls out, "Yoo-Hoo!
Come into the house, Dave!" she doesn't get one.
All twenty-three Daves of hers come on the run!
This makes things quite difficult at the McCaves'
As you can imagine, with so many Daves.
And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate ...
But she didn't do it. And now it's too late.

But what if just about everyone else thinks your real name stinks? I've always thought Olga sounded rather stern, or something ... an unfortunate Anglicization of a name that sounds so much better, gentler (!) in its Slavic form, where the hard "g", is actually a soft "h"...& the "o" is softened, too. "Olha" Like a gentle breeze that sound! Compared to Olga, anyway!

Obviously lots of others haven't been too taken with the hard sounding Olga, either, particularly my students, who have a tendency to change names to what ever suits them best! Consequently over the years I've been called the following names & more: Ollie, Miss O, Olga da Polga, Ollie Pops, etc, etc .... Once, as a silly joke, a couple of boys called me "Olgs" (very Australian, that. Funny.) & it stuck! It even grew on me! To this day I sometimes refer to myself by that silly name. ANYTHING but Olga!

Well, my name is Pamela, as in PamELA.
But I get Pam, Pammie, Pambla, Pamella, Pambela, Pameela,
Pamula, Pamla, Pamra - lots of immigrants where I've lived
and worked who can't say my name.

So I gather that if we call her chai we get killed?

Ah, I eventually learned to live with the Anglicized version of my name, David! It was more of a "thing" for some students - in those schools where teachers were on where on first-name basis with students. If I 'd received 5 cents for each time I was told it didn't sound right, or didn't suit me at all ... I'd be a very rich woman now.