Writer's Block: A rose by any other name

[athenaltena]

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I like it, though I did get some grief over it as a kid with people making rude nicknames from it, and to this day some people still pronounce it "Rose-Marie", shorten it without my permission (the rule of thumb is that you can call me Rose or Ro only if I give you permission or refer to myself as that when I introduce myself, otherwise I'm Rosemary) or mangle it in some way, like one idiot I worked with who once called me Anne-Marie, which is nowhere close (I should add that he'd worked with me for over a year at that point, so he really had no excuse).

I don't think I'd change it, since I'm pretty much the only person my age who has it and I think it fits me well. I can't think of any others that would work. I recently had someone comment on all the plants I have in my apartment, and all I could say was "Well, what do you expect with a name like mine?"

Comments

[kryptyd.livejournal.com]

I often meet people who immediately start calling my Fi after I introduce myself, always as Fiona. It's kind of weird. I find it jarring, but also find it something kind of cute about the personalities of people who do that. Hmm.

[athenaltena.livejournal.com]

I sometimes see it as cute if it's a kid or someone who just seems like the type to do that, but other times it comes off as people trying to get too close to me. I follow the journalism rule (via my parents, who were both journalists) that people know how to pronounce and spell their own names, and nicknames fall under the same thing.