The Annie Question

topic posted Tue, March 2, 2004 - 1:18 PM by  offlineAnne
This is a problem that deserves its own thread. What do y'all think?

How do you feel about Annie?
posted by:
Anne
California
  • Re: The Annie Question

    Tue, March 2, 2004 - 3:31 PM
    It drives me crazy! People always read my name with an invisibe I in it. It's like people who put a T in else, as in "can I get you anything eltse?" It is so annoying! Maybe I am just uptight? hee hee ;)
    • Re: The Annie Question

      Tue, March 2, 2004 - 7:13 PM
      Ya, I HATE that invisible I. ergh. lol!

      Whenever I spell my name out and they look at me all bright eyed and bushy tailed, you know the look-o, you're AnnIE. Sometimes, Lord have mercy on my soul, I want to respond: what grade did you graduate from? or something relating to their obvious misuse of the english language.(anyone knows that a plain e is usually silent at the end of a word, right? no one says airplanie, you know?) It's so mean, I don't dare, but I think stuff like that sometimes because it just drives me crazy.

      As you probably notice, I prefer being called my given name. :) Though, there are certain folks I let get away with Annie. Anna, never. I don't like that, either. I have reasons, not just because I plain don't like it, but how these names were used when I was growing up.
      • Re: The Annie Question

        Tue, March 2, 2004 - 7:58 PM
        I don't know why people add the I. You don't catch people calling Mikes, "Mikey."

        Also, it goes along with my pet peeve of people assuming they can call you by a nickname. I had a coworker who automatically went for the nickname, Barbara was "Barb," Robert was "Bob," etc.

        So, so wrong!
      • Re: The Annie Question

        Mon, July 4, 2005 - 1:46 AM
        Ya, I HATE that invisible I. ergh. lol!

        Whenever I spell my name out and they look at me all bright eyed and bushy tailed, you know the look-o, you're AnnIE. Sometimes, Lord have mercy on my soul, I want to respond: what grade did you graduate from? or something relating to their obvious misuse of the english language.(anyone knows that a plain e is usually silent at the end of a word, right? no one says airplanie, you know?) It's so mean, I don't dare, but I think stuff like that sometimes because it just drives me crazy.

        As you probably notice, I prefer being called my given name. :) Though, there are certain folks I let get away with Annie. Anna, never. I don't like that, either. I have reasons, not just because I plain don't like it, but how these names were used when I was growing up.
        • Re: The Annie Question

          Tue, July 5, 2005 - 12:58 PM
          Of course, what all this points out, is the importance of nipping this kind of thing in the bud.

          Saying "Oh, it's actually Anne" is no biggie after the first 1-2 "Annies", but after a few days/weeks, suddenly it becomes an icky social quandry.

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