Do you have a unique name or an odd spelling? What's your best 'I have a unique name story'??

My birth name is a set of chinese characters and I spent most of my childhood in western countries so never had the option of coming across a generic personalized keychain with my name on it. But last year while vacationing in Malaysia guess what I found?😂

My last name is pronounced "fey" (like Tina Fey), but of course, most people think it's "foe" (like an enemy). Several times over the years I've had people think that my full first name was "Heather Faye" (like Peggy Sue) and they have even introduced me to someone else by saying, "This is Heather Fey Foe". I always have to make that awkward decision...am I going to correct them or not? ;-)

In the hospital waiting room, as our triplets were about to be born and I was heading to the delivery room, I handed my parents and in-laws a bag of 4 inch tall individual and cutely-painted wooden letters and invited them to unscramble them to figure out each child's first name.

We finished first.

Regards,

Doug

"Quosig" says it all.

It's supposedly German, or something Franco-German. We pronounce it and describe it this way:

"quo" as in "quotation"

"sig" as in "signal"

I was told it's a bit more like "kvo-sig" in German.

Almost no one says it correctly on the first try. Most start adding extra letter sounds or entire sylables.

No one ever spells it correctly from hearing it. On the phone, my ritual is: "Q, U, O, S as in Sam, I, G as in George." Even then legit mail is mispelled. Junk mail comes in every conceivable mispelling and mangling.

It's like our last name is a magic word that causes the human mind to trip over itself in disbelief. ;-p