Friday, October 14, 2011

I pronounce my last name incorrectly...

 Susie May Taylor Leigh Henry. This is who I am named after: she was my biological father's mother.

This picture has become significant to my brothers in their attempts to convince me my last name is pronounced LAY instead of LEE.

My dad said LEE. I say LEE. He defended it with, "It's LEE, like Raleigh, North Carolina, not LAY like sleigh."

Now that my dad is dead, I am the only one left that says LEE -- the rest of the family says LAY. And the above picture proves that they are actually in the right.

"See the sign? 'The O.K. Restaurant: B.H. Lay.' LAY! It's supposed to be pronounced LAY!" my brother told me, on a couple separate occasions.

Oh well. It's too much trouble for me to try to change it now.

1 comment:

  1. I will always support you in saying LEE. Lay sounds like potato chips. you are not a potato chip. you're elegant.

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