Riddle me this.
May 12th, 2006 by B.
I was named after a french movie star upon whom my father had a massive crush (I know… ick), but given the irish spelling of said name. Which, coincidentally, is spelled almost exactly (just swap an ‘r’ and a ‘i’) like a very popular german name. Which is why… ***for the fourth time***… I’ve been mailed an ec card with an improper spelling of my first name.
Maybe it’s time to finally swap ye ole moniker for ‘the artist formally known as b’… thus fulfilling yet another lifelong dream. Only, purple makes me look bloated.
On this day..
- In honor of mothers everywhere. - 2007
- The fall of an icon. - 2006
Ah, I figured it out. Yes, I can see how that would be a problem in Germany. I get called Christine, Christiane and Christiana an awful lot but so far they’ve gotten all the cards right.
Maybe you should just change your name to Brunhilde?
LOL… I’ll stick with what I’ve got, no matter how frustrating. I just need to move to Ireland next.
My surname was wrong in the phone book for years and I still get letters addressed to greek sounding surname. Bank cards have fortunately always been correct
i love the spelling of your name as is… and i have always thought it was cool that you had a unique name and yet it wasn’t gross and ugly at the same time…
just remember… coming from your good friend here… in comparison to what it could have been… what some unfortunate others have been straddled with… it could have been waaaaaay worse.
My father had a huge crush on the same french actress. I escaped the Freuden naming fiasco that could have followed though.
Nevertheless, my name is constantly mispelled anyway. In the US people stuck in an extra ‘e’ or ‘h’, which I blame on the phoenetic spelling trend. Here I am often mistaken for the French car.