When your name is Lynne, L-Y-N-N-E, you don't get to 60 years old without having corrected people your whole life long.
"Is that L-Y-N-N?" folks ask.
"No, it's got an E at the end of it. L-Y-N-N-E."
But folks get it wrong all the time. Lynne, or Lynn, is a name from the fifties. Most Lynns (and Lynnes) were born then. It's much rarer after that.
I almost never meet another Lynne, so when I do, it's an event, as it was when Lynne Berg buttonholed me at the AQS show in Syracuse last Saturday.
She squealed, and grabbed my arm as I walked by, then held up her name tag to explain why. I squealed right back and gave her a hug. She and her husband had a vendor booth, and they make and sell the most gorgeous
solid wood custom sewing and quilting cabinets I have ever seen. We chatted a while, and then had lunch together, where we talked football, of all things.
I had a great time looking at quilts in Syracuse, but meeting people like Lynne really made it a special trip.
I hadn't appreciated that the spelling of your name was so unusual, Lynne.
ReplyDeleteMegan
Sydney, Australia
I am the same way with my name. I've spent my life saying "Vicki with an I". Lynn without an e is my middle name!
ReplyDeleteI love it when I meet another Lynne as I have several times. One day perhaps we will meet.
ReplyDeleteGlad you had fun at the show!
I've met her and seen that furniture - it is gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteSuper photo of both Lynne ladies!
I hear you! My sister spends a lot of time correcting the spelling of her name from Jacqueline to Jacquelyn. Maybe I should ask her if she'd like to spell it Jacquelynne. :D
ReplyDeleteI'm 62 and figure that I have earned the right to correct people ALL the time when they misspell my name. They even get it wrong in emails and I ALWAYS sign my name correctly at the end of emails. I have even capitalized the correct letter to use numerous times but there are still blind people out there. It's DOlores - thank you. I can sympathize with you and I always try to get the correct spelling of other people's names. OK, off my soapbox now.
ReplyDeleteOy! 61 years old here and my name is MAREI....not MarIE...not MarEL...not MarCI...it's M A R E I. And it's pronounced "Mary". 61+ years of that...with hopefully another 30 to go. :)
ReplyDeleteOnly met one other person (from Germany) who spelled her name the same way, but pronounced it differently.