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PSA: I am an overly sarcastic person. If you take me at my word, then i will most likely anger and offend you.

Both my first and last name are awful when dealing with new people.

That said, if I have a son someday I want to name him Shane, and I briefly considered having it spelled Sean at it should be, before realizing that that would just be perpetuating the name cruelty bestowed upon me by my parents for another generation, and how dare I do that lol.

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

I pretty much always call you Jail. lol

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

I'm so used to that it doesn't even bother me, so go ahead. Haha.

It's better than being called Joel...

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

People always pronounce my name as "Carolyn"...I guess I've gotten used to it, but it annoys me when I correct them and they keep pronouncing it like that, as if it's a preference. Caroline and Carolyn are two different names, everyone!

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

i think carolyn is easier to say, lol

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

wait, what IS jaels name then? i always thought it was "JAIL"

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I always pronounced it more like Jay-Ell.

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mechaphil

t-h-e (space) G-r-e-a-t

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

No one can ever figure my first name out. It's either spelled wrong, pronounced wrong or accompanied by a chorus of 'come on Eileen'. And my last name elicits giggles and a lot of 'REALLY?'. Thanks a lot, Mom and Dad.

so not to sound like a dick but pronouncing it that way makes it sound like shes from krypton

but i too thought it was pronounced similar to jail.

...so how is it really said?

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"That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat."

Driver of the FIRE LINDY RUFF Bandwagon since 2008.

every time i see your last name, i always think of paul coffee... i never really put it together with the morning hot beverage until now.

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Actually, it's Paul Coffey.

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mechaphil

It's Jay-el. How Phil says it. When people see it written irl but don't know how to pronounce it, I always tell them to imagine that it's the letters JL together. I am also asked almost every time I meet someone new what my name stands for because the other person thinks my initials are JL and that that's what I go by.

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Miles to go before I sleep

‎"Love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation."
-Khalil Gibran

My name is Pat but people always seem to pronounce it "Fuck head"

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actually, its shut up

/meatwad

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I even read that to myself in Meatwad's voice!

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mechaphil

hmmm, interesting.

i still say your from krypton.

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"That wasn't very nice...I do believe you killed my hat."

Driver of the FIRE LINDY RUFF Bandwagon since 2008.

BUT IT'S NOT MY NAME

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

I see where Caro is coming from on this. My cousin Lauren (pronounced like Loren, as in Sophia Loren) has been called Lauren (pronounced like Lauren Bacall) all her life and it still drives her nuts.

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mechaphil