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19 March 2009

Say my name, say my name.

Nearly everyone in Vietnam 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 as well, 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 Orgill ..."

Happy my surname is not Hogg. Or Cockburn,

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