have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
Apr 29th 2010, 8:53 pm
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
Many people over here and when I was in France either couldn't pronounce my first name or could never remember it so I stick with my middle name most of the time.
Apr 29th 2010, 9:08 pm
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
We dropped our second surname, for a start, but that was not to "fit in better".It was almost impossible to keep a second surname, in the UK as there was no provision for one on official forms and things.
Also I dropped half of my first name, as in those days the English shortened every name under the sun, so to have 2 as a christian names was just being greedy.
all my friends said that they would call me JOE, as everyone always got the Luis bit wrong and pronounced it as LOUIS (French way)
Also we knocked the accents in the head, once again impossible to keep in the UK on official papers.
Also I dropped half of my first name, as in those days the English shortened every name under the sun, so to have 2 as a christian names was just being greedy.
all my friends said that they would call me JOE, as everyone always got the Luis bit wrong and pronounced it as LOUIS (French way)
Also we knocked the accents in the head, once again impossible to keep in the UK on official papers.
Apr 29th 2010, 9:17 pm
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
It seems a thing with British peeps, they have to knock the "S" off the end off the end.
When I said it had an S on the end, I was called Louise or Lewis.
Apr 29th 2010, 9:37 pm
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
spanish juan was in the UK we would not change it to John
Think about it..............
Apr 29th 2010, 9:54 pm
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
Apr 29th 2010, 10:20 pm
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
It doesnt seem all that difficult to me either, but we have English friends who live in Torrevieja, in a place called San Luis. And I would say that most of the British I have met on my visits have called the place San Louis (loo-ee).
It seems a thing with British peeps, they have to knock the "S" off the end off the end.
When I said it had an S on the end, I was called Louise or Lewis.
It seems a thing with British peeps, they have to knock the "S" off the end off the end.
When I said it had an S on the end, I was called Louise or Lewis.
Best is in Punta del Moral though, we´re they order Pa pa To´! (Pan para todos!)
Apr 29th 2010, 11:12 pm
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
Another thing the locals there have thats different, is guaguas,..pronounced wawa,...whereas in almost all of Europe it is bus or autobus.
We always used to tell our friends,..."no wuffwuffs on the guagua".
Apr 29th 2010, 11:28 pm
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
Yes, I have also changed my name to the nearest pronouncable equivalent.
I'm so used to it now that my real name just doesn't sound right anymore. It doesn't even occur to me these days to tell people what my real name is. I'd been with my OH for over a year before I told him what I was really called.
I'm so used to it now that my real name just doesn't sound right anymore. It doesn't even occur to me these days to tell people what my real name is. I'd been with my OH for over a year before I told him what I was really called.
Apr 29th 2010, 11:57 pm
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
I too use my middle name.
I have got used to Saying I'll write it down when asked for my full name in any official capacity, then laughing as they try and pronounce it.
I have got used to Saying I'll write it down when asked for my full name in any official capacity, then laughing as they try and pronounce it.
Apr 30th 2010, 5:24 am
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
my name's really easy - though I have been called Linda sometimes
my older daughter just noticed that on the class photo the other year they had put a tilde over the 'e' - it would need it for the pronunciation to be right in Spanish
my younger daughter has a foreign-sounding name anyway - I have to use the Spanish pronunciation though if I want to get her attention if she's with a crowd of friends
My OH has never been called Juan - though it does get spelt wrong sometimes.
my older daughter just noticed that on the class photo the other year they had put a tilde over the 'e' - it would need it for the pronunciation to be right in Spanish
my younger daughter has a foreign-sounding name anyway - I have to use the Spanish pronunciation though if I want to get her attention if she's with a crowd of friends
My OH has never been called Juan - though it does get spelt wrong sometimes.
Apr 30th 2010, 5:31 am
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
One of our elderly neighbours spent quite a bit of time teaching my OH how to pronounce my name properly. Most call him Gra·am but a few (because they know that the English pronounce the H) say GraHam.
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Apr 30th 2010, 5:36 am
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one of my students surname is Comer - he has great fun trying to book a table....
Apr 30th 2010, 6:27 am
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
It doesnt seem all that difficult to me either, but we have English friends who live in Torrevieja, in a place called San Luis. And I would say that most of the British I have met on my visits have called the place San Louis (loo-ee).
It seems a thing with British peeps, they have to knock the "S" off the end off the end.
When I said it had an S on the end, I was called Louise or Lewis.
It seems a thing with British peeps, they have to knock the "S" off the end off the end.
When I said it had an S on the end, I was called Louise or Lewis.
Apr 30th 2010, 9:18 am
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
It doesnt seem all that difficult to me either, but we have English friends who live in Torrevieja, in a place called San Luis. And I would say that most of the British I have met on my visits have called the place San Louis (loo-ee).
It seems a thing with British peeps, they have to knock the "S" off the end off the end.
When I said it had an S on the end, I was called Louise or Lewis.
It seems a thing with British peeps, they have to knock the "S" off the end off the end.
When I said it had an S on the end, I was called Louise or Lewis.
Apr 30th 2010, 9:35 am
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Re: have any of you changed the way you say your name for an easier life.
We dropped our second surname, for a start, but that was not to "fit in better".It was almost impossible to keep a second surname, in the UK as there was no provision for one on official forms and things.
Also I dropped half of my first name, as in those days the English shortened every name under the sun, so to have 2 as a christian names was just being greedy.
all my friends said that they would call me JOE, as everyone always got the Luis bit wrong and pronounced it as LOUIS (French way)
Also we knocked the accents in the head, once again impossible to keep in the UK on official papers.
Also I dropped half of my first name, as in those days the English shortened every name under the sun, so to have 2 as a christian names was just being greedy.
all my friends said that they would call me JOE, as everyone always got the Luis bit wrong and pronounced it as LOUIS (French way)
Also we knocked the accents in the head, once again impossible to keep in the UK on official papers.
Only so that doesn't it confuse the teachers or the other kids.