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Originally posted by dtb
All my elementary school teachers totally butchered my name, despite my correcting them countless times. I've since stopped bothering to correct people (sometime during college, I think), and now when people discover they have been mispronouncing my name, they get all uppity and shit.
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I think I may have told this story before, but I'm not sure.
On my second day of Property class in law school, my scarily-socratic Property professor called on me, misprounouncing my last name in a very common way. Along the lines of "Miss Brah-zen... Am I pronouncing that correctly?" Dumbstruck with fear, I nodded. And spent the rest of my first year as "Miss Brah-zen". Towards the end of that year, my mother had ocassion to come to the law school building, looking for me and asked a classmate of mine if she knew where she might find Bold n' Bray-zen. My law school classmate pointed her towards my carrel in the library and then grabbed her by the elbow, whispering to her "You do know she pronounces it Brah-zen, don't you?"
Oh, how we laughed.
