This is only a short little rant, but I figure I may as well come up with something to break my several months of silence out here, and this is obviously better than breaking it with something silly like an explanation of where I have been and what I have been up to.
I am going to share with you something that I have learned through my many years of customer service. People can be really huffy about the spelling of their names should you get it wrong. I can understand some annoyance if you receive some official paper with your name spelled wrong because they didn't bother to verify. What I don't understand is being annoyed that the person trying to verify the spelling guessed wrong. Doesn't this just prove why they are doing that to begin with?
Do you know who gets really pissy about the spelling of their name though? Kathryn does. So does Catherine, Katherine, and Kathrynne. You see, there are many ways to spell Catherine, and every single Katherine out there seems to be at war with those whose parents named them a different shade of Kathryn. It reminds me a little of Dr Seuss's sneetches.
You see, what you Cath-wrens out there don't seem to realize is that this isn't a personal slight against your individual brand of Katherinism. In point of fact, we don't care about how you spell it. Well, not beyond getting it right. I am just saying we don't have a preference. Further, no number of pissy little Catherines are ever going to change our opinion that one Katherine is as good as another, nominally speaking.
I guess, what I am trying to get across to you Katheryns is, lighten up. You aren't special. Your name is going to be misspelled by many of us, or we are just going to ask you to spell it. If you don't like it, take it out on your parents.
That also goes for the occasional Stephen, Christine etc....although you are admittedly not as bad as Cathy.
That is just my take on life, or something close to it.
Labels: Catherine, Cathy, get over yourself, Katherine, Katheryn, Kathryn, Kathy, names
