A listener from San Diego, California, named Lois has been called Louise, Lori, Lauren, Louisa, and Rosa, to name a few. And of course, the Scott/Todd mix-up phenomenon continues. Do people ever mess up your name? This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Messing Up Names”
Lois in Poway, California sent us an interesting email.
She’s talking to us about the problem of her name.
Her name is Lois, but people just don’t get it right.
She says that growing up in New York, people would call her Laura, Lori, Doris, and Leslie.
And a couple of Japanese friends, of course, couldn’t pronounce the L’s at all, and it was a big problem.
Then she moved to San Diego, and now people also call her Luis, Luisa, Rosa, and Lola because of the Spanish-speaking population here.
Lois, we hear you.
We’re sorry about that.
I hope I got your name right.
Do people get your name wrong?
Give us a call, 877-929-9673, or send us email to words@waywordradio.org.
