[Magdalen] List sibs departed from this life

[Sally Davies]

My DH Keith has had to get used to people writing his name "Kieth", because
that's how many South Africans think it should look.

Even worse, some of the Afrikaans speakers, whose mother tongue lacks a
"th" as a word ending sound, pronounce it "Keef"!!

Luckily he's not much bothered by it. Our son Donal says he's given up
trying to correct people who call him "Donald" - even my mom does it
sometimes :-(

Sally D

On Monday, October 26, 2015, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 10/26/15 9:15 AM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>
>> Apologies for my dyslexic misspelling of your name Sibyl.
>>
>
> Thanks.  I usually don't say anything, but it's just amazing how many
> people do that who only know me from print: you'd think the spelling would
> stick, being seen in my sig and on my mailer so much, but scads of people
> do it.  It's more understandable from people who only hear my name, don't
> see it, but some of my nearest and dearest remaining relatives do, too.
>
> Maybe every thirtieth or fortieth time (counting everybody, not just the
> one person who does) that I see it does it hit an irritation point and I
> say anything:  it just happened that you were lucky Number 40 (or whatever).
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>