Birthday present question

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:28:47 GMT, "sash"
wrote:

I feel that we may have set our daughter Aislyn up for a life time of
explanations. Every time someone reads her name off they pronounce it
A's-lynnwith a long A but we pronounce it eyes-lynn.

I get this all the time with my name. It's pronounced (short a) sash-uh. I
can not tell you how many times I've been called (long a) sah-sha.
Explaining it gets old as well. If I know I'm not going to meet the person
again I usually don't correct them.

I hope your daughter doesn't have this problem!

You're not the only one. It's amazing to me how many times people
have pronounced my name "Seeth" (long e) when it's clearly spelled
"Seth" (short e). Would these people pronounce "Beth" as "Beeth"?
--
-Seth Jackson, proud father of Derek and Mariel(10/1/99). Pictures at:
http://hitmeister.home.mindspring.co...lypictures.htm

Music links: www.mp3.com/SethJackson
www.mp3.com/loudspeaker
www.SethJackson.net

I have very good friends who named their son Seth. He's now three and
wonderful, but people do have trouble with his name-- particularly older folks,
it seems want to say it something like, "Seef". Lots of folks can't seem to
get the ending down either. Weird.

-Cindy (mom to Ashlyn and Allyson 6/99 and Jenna 6/03)

In article , lid
says...

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:28:47 GMT, "sash"
wrote:

I feel that we may have set our daughter Aislyn up for a life time of
explanations. Every time someone reads her name off they pronounce it
A's-lynnwith a long A but we pronounce it eyes-lynn.

I get this all the time with my name. It's pronounced (short a) sash-uh. I
can not tell you how many times I've been called (long a) sah-sha.
Explaining it gets old as well. If I know I'm not going to meet the person
again I usually don't correct them.

I hope your daughter doesn't have this problem!

You're not the only one. It's amazing to me how many times people
have pronounced my name "Seeth" (long e) when it's clearly spelled
"Seth" (short e). Would these people pronounce "Beth" as "Beeth"?
--
-Seth Jackson, proud father of Derek and Mariel(10/1/99). Pictures at:
http://hitmeister.home.mindspring.co...lypictures.htm

Music links: www.mp3.com/SethJackson
www.mp3.com/loudspeaker
www.SethJackson.net

I have very good friends who named their son Seth. He's now three and
wonderful, but people do have trouble with his name-- particularly older folks,
it seems want to say it something like, "Seef". Lots of folks can't seem to
get the ending down either. Weird.

-Cindy (mom to Ashlyn and Allyson 6/99 and Jenna 6/03)

In article , lid
says...

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:28:47 GMT, "sash"
wrote:

I feel that we may have set our daughter Aislyn up for a life time of
explanations. Every time someone reads her name off they pronounce it
A's-lynnwith a long A but we pronounce it eyes-lynn.

I get this all the time with my name. It's pronounced (short a) sash-uh. I
can not tell you how many times I've been called (long a) sah-sha.
Explaining it gets old as well. If I know I'm not going to meet the person
again I usually don't correct them.

I hope your daughter doesn't have this problem!

You're not the only one. It's amazing to me how many times people
have pronounced my name "Seeth" (long e) when it's clearly spelled
"Seth" (short e). Would these people pronounce "Beth" as "Beeth"?
--
-Seth Jackson, proud father of Derek and Mariel(10/1/99). Pictures at:
http://hitmeister.home.mindspring.co...lypictures.htm

Music links: www.mp3.com/SethJackson
www.mp3.com/loudspeaker
www.SethJackson.net

The charitable donation is a great idea, and will teach the children about
generosity!

--
http://www.babygardengifts.com
"Andrea" wrote in message
...
Jordan and Madison have been invited to a classmate's birthday party. The
invitation had "please no gifts" on it. I want to respect the parents' no
gift
decision, but I feel bad about going to a party and not bringing anything.
Would it be appropriate to either donate a book to the local library in
the
child's name or else give the child a TCBY gift certificate for his family
to
enjoy ice cream treats? I'm leaning towards the first idea. What do you
all
think?

TIA,
Andrea
twin girls-Madison & Jordan
3/22/00

The charitable donation is a great idea, and will teach the children about
generosity!

--
http://www.babygardengifts.com
"Andrea" wrote in message
...
Jordan and Madison have been invited to a classmate's birthday party. The
invitation had "please no gifts" on it. I want to respect the parents' no
gift
decision, but I feel bad about going to a party and not bringing anything.
Would it be appropriate to either donate a book to the local library in
the
child's name or else give the child a TCBY gift certificate for his family
to
enjoy ice cream treats? I'm leaning towards the first idea. What do you
all
think?

TIA,
Andrea
twin girls-Madison & Jordan
3/22/00