On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, DanyJ wrote:
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 13:49:32 +1000 (EST)
"Familiarity" with a surname is probably a better factor - but thats harder to measure.
I once was in a temporary position (for about 3 weeks) where the staff member in charge and to whom I was accountable to could just not get the spelling of my surname right - on 3 separate occasions he had to write my name down he spelt it in 3 different ways, all wrong.
It probably means if that person had to make a decision about employing me, I would be at some disadvantage?
I still meet a friend in a place we refer to as Blablabla - because we frequently forget the name of the town: Bulahdelah. But we do not travel around it just because we have problems to memorise the name;-) A challenge when hitchhiking: Getting to Mosonmagyarovar (Pronouncing it in a way a Hungarian understands it) Regards Peter