How do you pronounce....

[Krys109uk]

Orpington is a place in Kent (that's a county in England). You can tell anyone, with absolute certainty, it is pronounced phonetically, precisely as it looks.

 

[miss_jayne]

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mine is Rhandi-Jayne and people actually CORRECT me and say, "You mean Brandy?" or sandy, or candy like i might not know my actual name.
seriously? SERIOUSLY????? lemme help y'all it's like this... ran-dee jane. super easy. now you know why my handle is miss_jayne. it'd be too hard for everyone to spell and say!

yep, i get the awesome combos too! brenda jean, brandywine, rhonda jane, rondi joan, oh you name it. we go along with it too and Rick, (my husband has been know to turn to me and say, "Yeah, Rhoda Gene, what DO you think of that???") and people also switch his name for mine. they call me Ricky and him Rhandi. Hello. i introduce myself as Rhandi-Jayne. ummmmm, if he's Rhandi-Jayne that is a little, um, ODD!!! and he goes by RICK not Ricky. it is hilarious.

but, i do have a special time with telemarketers who call and ask for....

Hello, may i speak with Ra han dee Doo ling er??????

WHAA?????? like that's a name. the fact that the pronounce the
'h' is craptacular. i know RIGHT away that i'm getting a sell-a-phoner. then i correct them and they apologize. i am SURE they are REALLY sorry. sorry enough to sell me windows or a new roof i don't need.

 

[Krys109uk]

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[wannabe_goatmom]

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mine is Rhandi-Jayne and people actually CORRECT me and say, "You mean Brandy?" or sandy, or candy like i might not know my actual name.
seriously? SERIOUSLY????? lemme help y'all it's like this... ran-dee jane. super easy. now you know why my handle is miss_jayne. it'd be too hard for everyone to spell and say!

yep, i get the awesome combos too! brenda jean, brandywine, rhonda jane, rondi joan, oh you name it. we go along with it too and Rick, (my husband has been know to turn to me and say, "Yeah, Rhoda Gene, what DO you think of that???") and people also switch his name for mine. they call me Ricky and him Rhandi. Hello. i introduce myself as Rhandi-Jayne. ummmmm, if he's Rhandi-Jayne that is a little, um, ODD!!! and he goes by RICK not Ricky. it is hilarious.

but, i do have a special time with telemarketers who call and ask for....

Hello, may i speak with Ra han dee Doo ling er??????

WHAA?????? like that's a name. the fact that the pronounce the
'h' is craptacular. i know RIGHT away that i'm getting a sell-a-phoner. then i correct them and they apologize. i am SURE they are REALLY sorry. sorry enough to sell me windows or a new roof i don't need.

You gotta love the telemarketers. Our last name is Fultz and they are always saying Flutz or Fluty or even Fluton. What? Do you see an N in my name? uh No you don't. And when they ask for Mr. Billie Flutz I just tell them he's not here and technically I'm not lying. LOL

 

[cwhit590]

Little Orphington Annies!!!

 

[miss_jayne]

oh gosh. it's a trip. a total trip. our phone is in our DD first name, my maiden last name. so most times the calls come to

Hannah Jordan. so i hand it over to her.....


she let's them go on and on an on. they ask if the price sounds good. she asks if they can do better than that. she explains she only has babysitting money.....or how dare they try to solicit a minor. it's awesome.

and some try to yell at me for (gasp) spoiling my kid with her OWN phone line!!! um, in the days of 5 yr olds having cellies, i don't think anyone should tell me my teen cannot have a land line because THEY didn't make a sale!

they certainly aren't building a case to sell me something anyway!

sometimes i act really excited like i just cannot believe the awesome deal they have and then ask if i can pay with food stamps. that just befuddles the daylights out of them. they will go get their managers and everything. it's hilarious. try it. i never lie and say i get food stamps, i just ask if one could pay with them. just wondering....

 

[miss_jayne]

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yes. they're quite rare. you can recognize them with the little poke sacks they carry with all their worldly goods singing, "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and looking pretty down in the mouth.