I keep meaning to tell you all something and now seems like a good time, since I've been asked about this a couple of times in the last few weeks.
Sometimes I forget that we've never met in person, and you've never heard my name spoken out loud. Internet friendships occupy a weird space between knowing and not knowing each other, don't they? So just in case you've been wondering but have been too shy to ask, my name is pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable, and it rhymes with trombone (as one person pointed out). Think My Sharona, but without that a sound at the end. It's Hebrew, but coincidentally it also rhymes with a lot of Spanish swear words, a fact which did not go unnoticed by my classmates in junior high and high school.
If you already knew how to pronounce my name, I give you permission to feel very smug and superior. If you didn't, I give you permission to pretend to all your friends that you did. You know, when they ask you which side you fell on. As they naturally will.
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| I knew instinctively. But that's just how I do. |
Ok, as you were.
I totally knew. I am awesome like that. Coincidentally, my name is also pronounced with the emphasis on the last syllable. As in, aiRIN.
ReplyDeleteOkay, just kidding. But when I was in junior high I always wanted to change the spelling of my name to Arynne Jeaux. Which has nothing to do with anything, but I'm kind of glad I didn't. Jeaux? Really? But doesn't Arynne look like the emphasis should be on the last syllable? That's what I thought.
My point is, junior high never really leaves us, even when we move several hundred miles away and get our braces off and grow out the bad perm.
I am very smug and superior! xoxo
ReplyDeleteI knew! I knew! :)
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you posted this. I've being saying it the right way in my head, but I started thinking "What if I'm saying it wrong? What if she's all, "Actually, it's just "Sharon" with an "e" at the end" and then I look like an idiot? A great weight has been lifted from my shoulders. I almost typed "soldiers". Even in my exhausted state of mind, that is absurd.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was little I read this book about a girl named Suzanne who would introduce herself as "Suzanne. Christened so. Not Susan putting on airs."
ReplyDeleteEvery time I would say your name in my head in the last...how long have we been Internet friends? That long...I would think about Suzanne and Sharone and try to work it all out. I don't even really know why Suzanne came into it at all, but she did. I think she was one of the spunky blonde orphans who lived with her wealthy uncle and got into scrapes in one of the books my mom read in the 60s and then handed down to me. If that helps.
Anyway, Sharone-rhymes-with-trombone, thank you for clarifying. And also I won't call you that ever again because I believe it might become grating.