> > In school, whenever the teacher would get my name right on the first try, I was amazed. In all my years of school, I'd say a teacher got my name right on the first try maybe 5 times (that includes substitute teachers). My name is spelled Alethea, and pronounced (since I'm sure most of you are mispronouncing it right now) a LEE thee a. I get Althea (missing the first "e"), Aletha (missing the second "e"), al e THEE a (at least they pronounce all the syllables with that one) and countless others. I had a boss call me Athena for three years (I gave up correcting him after a couple of months).
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> > And over the phone it's even worse. I'll answer to Olivia, Alicia, Alisha, Aretha, or pretty much anything that starts with "A".
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> > I rarely post on this board (though I try to read it every day) but this is one subject I can reaaly relate to.
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> > Ale"Greek for truth"thea
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> We welcome this and any future posts you may feel so inclined to give. We are always interested in the thoughts of the RinkWorks populace that reads but does not post. Feel free to comment on anything you see here. If you have been reading for a while, you already know that we don't upset easily. And if it does so happen that one of is out-of-sorts, the problem is targeted and dealt with immediately.
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> Hope you post again real soon.
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> Drac "I got your name right on the first try" imas

Thanks for the welcome (1 year after I first discovered the board). I'm quite impressed that you got my name right - sometimes *I* don't even get it right ;)