Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

I thought his first post was pretty clear when I first read it.
He is called Stephen and wants it to be pronounced the same as Steven as in Hawking, but he is getting it pronounced Stefan as in Edberg. Or maybe I missed his point totally....


Now when we got down to Gaiss, I got totally confused, and my confusion was only compounded further by Chinese first and last names, so now I'm going to sit in a darkened room with a large coffee till the pain stops

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

That was commonplace for me at work, particularly in the early days when we had to call ships on the radio telephone. Unfortunately I don't find it works well here, and need to revert to the local usage which seems to revolve either around either first names or fruit .....A for apple, D for David or whatever.....

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

It's that a little weird using your first name? That is almost a throw back to slavery days.

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

I have the opposite problem.....our address includes "Pass" (Peter Andrew Stephen Steven) and when I spell it out, it invariably gets changed to "Path"

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

But then he said "St. Stephen" is not "St. Steven" so I thought there were three different possible pronunciations and thought he was referring to the way the first "e" was pronounced to differentiate between the "ph" and "f" sounnd.:confused:

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

I thought he meant in Christian contexts it is normally spelt with a ph, but pronounced with a v.....where tf did the OP go? He needs to come back and explain himself!

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

Well at least we turned a simple thread into a complex thread so it was not all for naught.:unsure::thumbsup:

At least we aren't talking about cars yet.:blink:

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

That's how I read it.

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

There seems to be a crowd gathering outside Starbucks...something about a limey going loco.

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

Oh I remember now. The one word with which I had the most difficulty spelling over the phone - FORT - as part of an address.
I would say to people 'Fort like in castle ' and sometimes they still wouldn't get it, so I would have to spell it.

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

Oh and to cap it all I seem to have acquired a middle initial (J, as in ox ;)).

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

Not me...they wouldn't close the curtains so I got a takeaway and retired to my closet:p

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

Me to but I don't understand the 'ox'. It seems there is a telemarking company that sells information and their database can't handle a name without a middle initial since when I get unsolicited mail from a company that I've never dealt with, there is usually a "J" as the middle name.:thumbdown:

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

:eek:

Re: It's Stephen.....not Stefan
 

Correction: where tph did the OP go.......?