I always thought I had an easy name to hear and spell. Almost as easy as being named Jones or Smith. When people outside the motorcycle industry ask for my last name and I say “Huze”, the other person says “Ruze”, and when I say, no “Huze”, the question is “Huge”? No “Huze”. And the other person to say. Oh, ”Ruge” or “Hughes”? Like Howard? And it goes on and on. Now, imagine over the phone, especially with my accent, and worse when the other has another accent and I talk using a cell phone. Of course I have also to state my 1st name “Cyril”, a pronunciation and sound rarely heard in my adoptive country. I used to spell out the 9 letters of my full name like a good kindergarten kid, with “C” as in cat, “Y” as in yard, “R” as in Roger, etc. But if I have the time I want to show my interlocutor that I can be creative and also have college education. Here how it goes:
Cyril. “C” as in Czar. “Y” as in YMCA. “R” as in Rhinoplasty. “I” as in Iconoclast. “L” as in “Lithium”. Then Huze. “H” as in Homeopathy. “U” as in Unctuous. “Z” as Zzzzzzz. “E” as Euthanasia.
Try with your name, but of course, be ready to spend much more time on the phone. So only when you call a toll free number and never when you open a brokerage account.
Boy am I ever glad I don’t have a strange name like you Cyril!
Cyril, consider yourself lucky, there a lot worse names out there, consider mine (Harold) so be glad your parents had mercy on you as opposed to mine/lol.
Ive had fun with my name for as long as I can remember…. I make a joke of about it just about every chance I get……… JAXON 5 ya know…. A-B-C………… its as easy as,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, LOL
people remember it !
With a name such has Ray c wheeler I too have had fun with an easy to remember name .
See you in Cincy Booth # 6871
Indy Booth # 870
Thanks a million ,
Ray c wheeler
You need to learn the Military Alphabet, Cyril
Charlie-Yankee-Romeo-Indigo-Lima
Hotel-Uniform-Zulu-Echo
Hey Ray, do you have your booth numbers mixed around? LOL
Mike ,
Cincy Booth # 870
Indy # 5871
Just a little mixed up today .
See you there .
Thanks a million ,
Ray c wheeler
What about Gustian Bourgeois to spell???
Can you imagine how many times I have to repeat this to some-one who speaks English !?
Lucky for me, RE : Rocket , I do know the military alphabet.
But then, on the other side, it doesn’t help you much if the one you talk to is not familiar with it.
It gets you sometimes into hilarious situations, worth a humouristic TV-programm.
Gustian
Jaxon 5 , every time I see your posts I wonder which one you are ? LOL. I know your not Michael so which one are you ?
Jack Dorff (Jack-d orff) enough said.
you’d be surprised to know that people want me to spell my last name