Ginå
All my life I have been plagued with people calling me Gino, either by accident or on purpose (notoriously, Greg). Allister must have thought I was missing this in Denmark so he sent a special message with Gino! as the subject. For your information, Allister, it was totally unnecessary as I got called Gino at work today (via email) by a lady in communications/PR no less. tsk tsk.
I've always wondered how people could make this mistake, because I don't think that many Gina's have this problem. And I think I finally realize why. It's because my last name ends with an 'o'. People glance at the full name during a brain contraction and voila! Gino is born.
I have another explanation for Danish people. As I explained to Allister earlier, the Danes have a special letter 'å' which is pronounced like an 'o'. As if to say, oops, we don't really want an a, and we don't have an eraser, so we're just going to put a little 'o' on top. Now it's an 'o'! So my theory is that Danish people sometimes see my name as Ginå.
Whå's with me ån that last theåry? Gåd it's tåugh tå be a Dane!
I've always wondered how people could make this mistake, because I don't think that many Gina's have this problem. And I think I finally realize why. It's because my last name ends with an 'o'. People glance at the full name during a brain contraction and voila! Gino is born.
I have another explanation for Danish people. As I explained to Allister earlier, the Danes have a special letter 'å' which is pronounced like an 'o'. As if to say, oops, we don't really want an a, and we don't have an eraser, so we're just going to put a little 'o' on top. Now it's an 'o'! So my theory is that Danish people sometimes see my name as Ginå.
Whå's with me ån that last theåry? Gåd it's tåugh tå be a Dane!
posted by Gina at 4:37 PM
2 Comments:
I'd be with you if I could find such a letter on my keyboard.. I tried pressing "a" and "o" at the same time, but its not working..
Still, at least the Danes can pronounce your name.. I won't even start on what I'm responding to these days.
I hear that!
I've been answering to "Kahn" rather than "Kern" because it's the closest Japanese approximation to my name that exists.
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