May 2009
1 post
Do you like my Umlaut?
This is the way my parents always spelled my name, I always had an umlaut:
Joëlle
However, americans are pretty lazy. So my name usually looks like this:
Joelle
How do you pronouce it? Well, some people really don’t know. I’ve been called Jello, Gillette (like the razor, seriously, where does the T come from?), Jolie, Joanna, Joan, Joanna, Joyelle …. It was always a nightmare in...