Comments on: What’s in a (your) Name? http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/11/your-name/ Talking about websites Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:21:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Emily Cotler http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/11/your-name/comment-page-1/#comment-2094 Emily Cotler Wed, 09 Dec 2009 04:32:52 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=802#comment-2094 Thanks Beth! We just want to make it easy for people to do that word-of-mouth thing. Thanks Beth! We just want to make it easy for people to do that word-of-mouth thing.

]]> By: Beth Barany http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/11/your-name/comment-page-1/#comment-2090 Beth Barany Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:34:41 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=802#comment-2090 Emily, I love how you make everything so user friendly for the author's fan (and the author!) All professionals and entrepreneurs who wants to create better connections with their fans, prospects and clients would do well to provide a pronunciation guide of their names on their site.. Emily, I love how you make everything so user friendly for the author’s fan (and the author!) All professionals and entrepreneurs who wants to create better connections with their fans, prospects and clients would do well to provide a pronunciation guide of their names on their site..

]]> By: Emily Cotler http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/11/your-name/comment-page-1/#comment-2037 Emily Cotler Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:43:31 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=802#comment-2037 Geri, you are so sweet! We love working with you, too. (Did everyone see the last time I blogged about Geri? When she gave her book to the President?! I know, seriously!) http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/07/michelle-obama/ Geri, you are so sweet! We love working with you, too. (Did everyone see the last time I blogged about Geri? When she gave her book to the President?! I know, seriously!)

http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/07/michelle-obama/

]]> By: Geri http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/11/your-name/comment-page-1/#comment-2033 Geri Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:26:36 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=802#comment-2033 Emily, you and Wax Creative ROCK! For the first time in three generations of Krotow's, the name is being pronounced correctly (at least by anyone who visits my website). Interestingly enough, it's my first name that causes the issues here in Moscow (and Europe for the most part). "Geri" gets pronounced as "Gary" or "Garg." Have no idea why the "Jerry" pronounciation is so tough, except that it's traditionally a masculine name. I'm blessed to have found Wax Creative. Emily, you and Wax Creative ROCK! For the first time in three generations of Krotow’s, the name is being pronounced correctly (at least by anyone who visits my website). Interestingly enough, it’s my first name that causes the issues here in Moscow (and Europe for the most part). “Geri” gets pronounced as “Gary” or “Garg.” Have no idea why the “Jerry” pronounciation is so tough, except that it’s traditionally a masculine name.
I’m blessed to have found Wax Creative.

]]> By: Emily Cotler http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/11/your-name/comment-page-1/#comment-2032 Emily Cotler Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:10:18 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=802#comment-2032 Well said, Pah-Bah! Well said, Pah-Bah!

]]> By: Pobba http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/11/your-name/comment-page-1/#comment-2031 Pobba Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:06:53 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=802#comment-2031 Sometimes, however, nothing helps. I do concerts at schools across the country, singing for kids (K-4) and their teachers. Now wouldn't you think that primary grades teachers, the ones who teach reading, would never mispronounce "POBBA"? I mean, we're taught in phonics that a doubled consonant makes the preceding vowel short. WILL is not pronounced WHILE. And there is a clear distinction between PINNED and PINED. But fully 50% of the time, I get introduced as "POE-bah," not "PAH-bah." No wonder, Johnny (pronounced "JOANIE") can't read. Sometimes, however, nothing helps. I do concerts at schools across the country, singing for kids (K-4) and their teachers. Now wouldn’t you think that primary grades teachers, the ones who teach reading, would never mispronounce “POBBA”? I mean, we’re taught in phonics that a doubled consonant makes the preceding vowel short. WILL is not pronounced WHILE. And there is a clear distinction between PINNED and PINED.
But fully 50% of the time, I get introduced as “POE-bah,” not “PAH-bah.”
No wonder, Johnny (pronounced “JOANIE”) can’t read.

]]> By: Emily Cotler http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/11/your-name/comment-page-1/#comment-2030 Emily Cotler Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:04:09 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=802#comment-2030 Red, it has been our pleasure. Cant wait for your new book to come out! Red, it has been our pleasure. Cant wait for your new book to come out!

]]> By: Red http://waxcreative.com/blog/2009/11/your-name/comment-page-1/#comment-2029 Red Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:07:34 +0000 http://waxcreative.com/blog/?p=802#comment-2029 Emily, I don't know what I'd do without you. People would still be puzzling over how to pronounce my name if you hadn't made that awesome suggestion. :) Emily, I don’t know what I’d do without you. People would still be puzzling over how to pronounce my name if you hadn’t made that awesome suggestion. :)

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