Writer's Block: Repeat After Me...

[athenaltena]

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People most often mispronounce it "Rose-Marie" like it's two names, though it's "Rosemary", one name, no stress in the middle. The Chump at work also once called me "Anne-Marie", which was the moment I officially decided he was an idiot. (Honestly, I don't look at all like an Anne!)

I'll usually settle for just being called "Rose", since it's easier to remember. No one really calls me Mary (which is also the name of an aunt on my Dad's side) so it's either Rose or Rosemary for most people.

Most people get the first part of my last name right since it's so common, though they tend to spell the Gray part as Grey, which is incorrect. I suspect it has something to do with Jean Grey, thank-you-very-much Marvel!

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[iamasalmonscarf.livejournal.com]

I personally have a terrible habit of using British spellings for lots of things because they look more correct to me...it got me in a lot of heated debates with my fifth-grade teacher, when I still thought that "but I read it in a book!" was a valid defense.

I find it very strange that people pronounce my last name as "Oh-ppenheimer." I mean, double consonants imply a short vowel in English as well as in German. I guess people see a long, German-looking name and get intimidated. The secret to good German pronunciation is refusing to act scared. German compound nouns can smell fear. :)