When someone prounounces your name right ... on the first try.
My first name is spelled Lauren, but it is not pronounced the way most people read it. It is Laur - enne. Not Loren. Nobody ever pronounces my name correctly. To make matters worse I used to be really shy, so in elementary school when my teacher pronounced my name incorrectly on the first day of school I didn't say anything. That teacher would continue calling me the wrong name up until they met my mom who would then correct them and finally they would say my name properly, most of the time. As I got older I finally began correcting people. It still drives me crazy when people say it the wrong way. It is especially annoying when people continue to mis-pronounce my name after I have corrected them. Sometimes I wish my parents had given me a simple name like Lucy or something so that people would never mis-pronounce it, although I really like my name so I don't actually want to change it, I just want people to say it correctly. When people somehow pronounce my name correctly on the first try it makes me super happy and it is really just awesome. Write about your own name. Do people ever mis-pronounce it? Do people shorten it and give you a nickname that you don't like? Is your name so simple that nobody ever gets it wrong? Do you like your name?
Ms. Harstone
(Due Friday March 16th 2012)
Minimum 200 words
Book of Awesome
