SHERLY

I'm surprised I hadn't gotten this variation of my name until now. If casual acquaintances or friends are going to misspell my name, they most often reverse the Y and the L (CHERLY) -- and for some reason this is the misspelling which irks me the most. SHERLY would be pronounced something akin to "Shirley." So even though the cashier spelled it incorrectly, I have to give props to the server who brought me my take-out. She yelled out "Sher-Lee," which is how it would be pronounced with this spelling. LY is a "lee" sound - like in unexpectedly, stupidly, lamely -- or a slew of other adverbs.  Customer service type people used to ask me if my name was "with a C or an S?"  Then they generally got the rest of it correct -- except for the occasional reversal of the last two letters.  

SHERLY

I thought for sure I would be getting a duplicate. Take special note. Notice the host's name. Luis took my order a couple of weeks ago and dubbed me SHARO.  I'm rewarding Luis plus two (+2) style points for a general improvement in spelling.

SHERL

As I said back on Friday, Cherl is one of the most common misspellings of my name. Well, here it is in all its glory in the S-version.  I guess I get it phonetically:  Sher-L, but written this way it's one syllable and would be pronounced "Shurl," which, growing up in Southern Indiana, is also a spelling I've seen before.

SHERL

Stayed tuned in the next couple of days when I'll have two special guest posts:  one is another post from Rion, and the other is the first Cheryl guest post.  Please remember to send me photos of your own name mangling at cheryl@igivegoodword.com -- thanks!

SHARO

This receipt was hanging around the bottom of my purse from the weekend.  Yes, I was feeling hormonal and sorry for myself, so I went to Fatburger, The Last Great Hamburger Stand (what of it?), where the burgers are delicious and the cashiers don't know how to spell.

What really gets me about Sharo is that they're missing the "L" sound at the end. Granted, the cashier's name was Luis, so maybe he's 1st generation American, which makes sense because...

...This permutation gets me one step closer to blond bombshell bustiness that is María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Gutiérrez de los Perales Santa Ana Romanguera y de la Hinojosa Rasten, known to most of the world as simply Charo.

Cuchie cuchie!