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1. Are you named after anyone?
Nope. Mom just liked the name "Stephanie," as did 75% of the new mothers at the time, it seems. She wanted a long name to go with my short last name of "Folse", (probably because she took my dad's name when she married, so her name was the rather staccato "Jan Folse") and gave me the middle name of "Glynne" because she thought it sounded nice with "Stephanie."
She wanted to give me her maiden name, Freasier, as a first name, which would have been the Ultimate Preppie Name, but got talked out of it apparently.
2. Do you have your children's names picked out already?
No. I'd always thought that if I had a daughter I'd name her Madeleine (pronounced "Madelen," not "Madeline" thankyouverramuch), after one of my grandfather's aunts, because I liked the name. And then a friend of mine named his daughter Madeleine and I think I've run across someone else naming their daughter that, so now I fear it'll be as popular as Stephanie was when I was born.
But I probably won't have kids, so the point is actully moot.
3. If you were born a member of the opposite sex, what would your name have been?
Eliot, or Eliot Porter, after my dad's favorite photographer. I am glad I turned out female, because I think that being geeky and named Eliot would have been a complete and utter social death blow in school.
4. If you could re-name yourself what name would you pick and why?
I like Stephanie. I spent many years as a kid hating my name, for whatever reason I had at the time, but it's a nice name. My problem with it is that everyone else and their dog is named Stephanie. I don't want to change my name, I want everyone else to change theirs.
5. Are there any mispronunciations/typos that people do w/your name constantly?
I don't like it when people who aren't friends shorten it to "Steph" and "Stephie" is grounds for an immediate painful beatdown. My first name isn't prone to a whole lot of mispronunciation, since it's so common, although I get "Stefanie" or "Stephane" or "Stephani" occasionally.
What gets the most mispronunciation is my last name, "Folse." One syllable, long o, sibilant s, silent e. Comes from the German "Foltz," which apaprently came from "Volks," but that might be wrong. The "ol" is hard for a lot of people to say and they usually resort to a sort of "ohw". They also want to give it two syllables, as "Folsey", and once my orchestra teacher pronounced it "Falsie", which would have been the Social Kiss of Death in middle school except that I was already a nerd anyway, so it hardly made a difference. People also for some reason want to say "Flose" and my grandparents make fun of it and call each otehr Mr and Mrs Flosey. When saying it over the phone, I automatically say "F as in fancy, O, L, S as in Sam, E" because otherwise it gets written down as "Solfe" or "Folfe" or "Solse."
The really interesting bit? Between my grandparents' generation and mine, the pronunciation has changed. I and my mother pronounce it with a soft S. My grandparents pronounce it with a hard S, almost a Z, as "Folts". I have no idea how my dad said it, since he died some time ago, and I only noticed the difference in pronunciation a year or so ago. Guess that illustrates language change in action.
And now I've stared at "Stephanie" for so long it looks bizarre.
homasse and m00nface1. Are you named after anyone?
Nope. Mom just liked the name "Stephanie," as did 75% of the new mothers at the time, it seems. She wanted a long name to go with my short last name of "Folse", (probably because she took my dad's name when she married, so her name was the rather staccato "Jan Folse") and gave me the middle name of "Glynne" because she thought it sounded nice with "Stephanie."
She wanted to give me her maiden name, Freasier, as a first name, which would have been the Ultimate Preppie Name, but got talked out of it apparently.
2. Do you have your children's names picked out already?
No. I'd always thought that if I had a daughter I'd name her Madeleine (pronounced "Madelen," not "Madeline" thankyouverramuch), after one of my grandfather's aunts, because I liked the name. And then a friend of mine named his daughter Madeleine and I think I've run across someone else naming their daughter that, so now I fear it'll be as popular as Stephanie was when I was born.
But I probably won't have kids, so the point is actully moot.
3. If you were born a member of the opposite sex, what would your name have been?
Eliot, or Eliot Porter, after my dad's favorite photographer. I am glad I turned out female, because I think that being geeky and named Eliot would have been a complete and utter social death blow in school.
4. If you could re-name yourself what name would you pick and why?
I like Stephanie. I spent many years as a kid hating my name, for whatever reason I had at the time, but it's a nice name. My problem with it is that everyone else and their dog is named Stephanie. I don't want to change my name, I want everyone else to change theirs.
5. Are there any mispronunciations/typos that people do w/your name constantly?
I don't like it when people who aren't friends shorten it to "Steph" and "Stephie" is grounds for an immediate painful beatdown. My first name isn't prone to a whole lot of mispronunciation, since it's so common, although I get "Stefanie" or "Stephane" or "Stephani" occasionally.
What gets the most mispronunciation is my last name, "Folse." One syllable, long o, sibilant s, silent e. Comes from the German "Foltz," which apaprently came from "Volks," but that might be wrong. The "ol" is hard for a lot of people to say and they usually resort to a sort of "ohw". They also want to give it two syllables, as "Folsey", and once my orchestra teacher pronounced it "Falsie", which would have been the Social Kiss of Death in middle school except that I was already a nerd anyway, so it hardly made a difference. People also for some reason want to say "Flose" and my grandparents make fun of it and call each otehr Mr and Mrs Flosey. When saying it over the phone, I automatically say "F as in fancy, O, L, S as in Sam, E" because otherwise it gets written down as "Solfe" or "Folfe" or "Solse."
The really interesting bit? Between my grandparents' generation and mine, the pronunciation has changed. I and my mother pronounce it with a soft S. My grandparents pronounce it with a hard S, almost a Z, as "Folts". I have no idea how my dad said it, since he died some time ago, and I only noticed the difference in pronunciation a year or so ago. Guess that illustrates language change in action.
And now I've stared at "Stephanie" for so long it looks bizarre.
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So where does Telophase come from, then?
And, on a completely different topic... will the next printing of Project Blue Rose be available to overseas orders? I must have sexy secret operatives...
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"Stephanie Folse" anagrams to "Telophase Fines." Found that out when playing with the Internet Anagram Server (http://wordsmith.org/anagram/) with a friend one day.* Shortly afterward I needed a name for a forum somewhere and dropped in "telophase." And Thus a Legend was Born.
re: PBR, absolutely! USD$12.99 for overseas orders. :D
* He found out that it also anagrammed to "hot sea elf penis" but stopped making fun of me when I found out his name anagrammed to "camel cock hirer." :)
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There seem to be no good anagrams of "Helen Keeble", while my married name "Underwood" reveals the cunningly-altered... "Under Wood". Mmm.
I will eagerly await the next PBR printing! May have to get multiple copies for friends, too, after pimping your DA page to them. :-)
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Woo-hoo! XD
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Funny, I make it 'wonder duo'. What's wrong with anagram machine? (Or is it me? It's almost 2 am...)
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