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19 March 2009

Say my name, say my name.

Nearly everyone has a first, middle and family name and in keeping with the language, they are all single syllables. Vietnamese names are written in reverse order, eg Nguyen Long Quoc's first name is Quoc. 

I've been set up in the intranet with my name backwards.

So today I received a phone call which began:

"Hello? May I please speak with Murrell?"
-- Umm ... Murrell speaking.

Followed by an email which began:

"Dear Joe, Stephen, Jessica and Murrell ..."

What if your name was Greenbottom? How far would they go? My vote is all the way.

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