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Mlle. Dupont (24.9.02)

Robin and Cheryl jokingly asked if I would get to take on a French name while I was here, the way we did in middle school language classes. Well, I'm giving it serious thought. People have a real problem with putting a C right after an M in my name. I can see why: McN doesn't seem quite pronounceable. But there is so much time-wasting and confusion, and so much attention brought to me and my name, that I give up.

Following the spelling disaster, there is the standard "C'est ecossais, non?", which often leads to the misunderstanding that I myself am Scottish. I usually just let people think that. I think my hotel owners do. But then that can lead to more problems, like the German money exchange man who saw that my middle name was Abigail. He said "That's a German name," and I replied that it was English as well. "And Spanish," I added, as an afterthought. Then he started asking his colleague if she spoke Spanish so we could speak to each other in Spanish.

srah - Thursday, 26 September 2002 - 4:23 PM
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