jareba - life together (a friends & family update blog)

by Becky
on July 31, 2008

That’s a first!

Yesterday I woke up to a phone call from an overly perky Sprint employee who MISPRONOUNCED OUR LAST NAME!  I have never had that happen.   Most of you who read this blog know our last name and know that it:

  1. Is very common
  2. Follows the rules of standard English phonetics (no silent Qs in the middle or anything)
  3. Contains a word very common to the English vocabulary.

The person was a native speaker of English and still had troubles.  Odd.

She also asked if I was James.  Now, it was first thing in the morning, but I like to think I don’t sound mannish, even then.

  1. LOL.

    Comment by Raina! — August 1, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
  2. how DID she say it?

    Comment by Jodi — August 1, 2008 @ 3:52 pm
  3. She used a short a instead of a long one, and hesitated before she tried. I forgot to mention that before becoming completely incredulous I did ask Jamie if our name is spelled correctly on our Sprint bill. It is.

    Comment by Becky — August 1, 2008 @ 8:08 pm

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