[Magdalen] Mispronunciation (was Re: List sibs departed from thislife)

[Marion Thompson]

My ex- family has been de Courcy-Ireland for literally hundreds of years 
so de Courcy may well be an ancient link but not likely a present day 
one with the de C-I's.  Still, six degrees of separation and all that, 
you never know.

Marion, a pilgrim

On 10/31/2015 1:03 PM, Lesley de Voil wrote:
> Well, well, it's a small world. I have a friend now in South Australia who surely must be related to you. She is Michele de Courcy. I have known her since when we were at university together some 30 years ago. We still perform together infrequently despite the distance between us. I will get some details from her.
> Regards
> Lesley de Voil
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎1/‎11/‎2015 0:45
> To: "magdalen at herberthouse.org" <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Mispronunciation (was Re: List sibs departed from thislife)
>
> Back in the day when my last name was de Courcy-Ireland, on some
> occasions my patter was 'small d e, capital C o u r c y hyphen Ireland
> as in Great Britain.
>
> The best most amusing moment came at the office where I would answer
> 'Marion de Courcy-Ireland.'  Long silence at caller's end - 'Pardon?'  I
> repeated very deliberately 'Marion de Courcy-Ireland'. Pause, then
> laughter.  Caller said, 'I wondered how I had reached New York!  I
> thought you said Ferry to Coney Island.'
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On 10/30/2015 10:10 PM, M J [Mike] Logsdon wrote:
>> I should have also said that I no longer just spell my name for people.  It's always "L-O-G-S as in Sam-D-O-N as in Don", and then I model good behavior by re-saying it, in followup to the effort I've gone to in spelling it.  I honestly think it has helped, a bit.
>> .
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