That's not my Name!

Err sorry Elisha--is it really *so* surprising that people would mistake "Elisha" for "Elijah"? They're pronounced much the same, could be easily confused esp on phone or something. And anyway I always got them mixed up in Bible trivia.

In my case, "Laurel" morphs into Laura or Lauren and NO ONE can pronounce Girvan right on the first try.

I often get called by my surname (cos it's also a christian name-type name), which really, REALLY gets up my nose in a hurry. I also get "Tim" a lot. I never get this sort of hassle when I refer to myself as James.

My last name is Kilgore. Most people get the pronunciation right but way too many people have been asking me if I wanted to kill Al Gore (ever since his first term as vice president) or chant, "Kill! Gore! Kill Gore!" Last quarter the geography professor led the whole class into a fit of laughter over my name and how he probably didn't get my vote. Ha! Ha.