Names

[sophiamcl]

> Alice:
>Apart from anything else, it saves a lot of people from spending a 
lifetime
> spelling out their name. I should know how tiresome that is, living
> with a Scottish surname in Hungary, to top it all one that has a
> capital letter in the middle of it (it's a "Mc" one). I have
> absolutely and completely given up trying to get my name spelt
> properly by anyone else except my boyfriends. > 
> 
I hear you. I live in Sweden with a Scottish Mc-name. Although Sweden 
is a somewhat anglified country and people nowadays know their way 
around english spelling (at least in my generation), it still 
surprises me when someone behind a counter, say, takes my name down 
without asking how it's spelled. Whi´le growing up, I quickly learned 
to spell out my surname, and got used to responding to my first name 
only at the denstist, hospital or doctor's office: Whenever the nurse 
came into the waiting room and said "Sophia.."followed by a puzzled,  
pregnant pause, I'd know she meant me.

Sophia