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January 3rd, 2004

Name Butchering

Around our house, when someone calls and butchers my wife’s first name, we know it’s likely a telemarketer. Or when they ask for “Michael,” thinking that part of our last name is actually my first name. This morning we got a call from an insurance agent (not ours) that butchered my wife’s name really badly. In their records they had “Michael” as the first name and a concatenation of her first and middle names (neither of which are standard American names) as her last name.

Has your name ever been terribly butchered?

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