{"id":4474,"date":"2019-12-03T12:12:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T12:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/?p=4474"},"modified":"2019-12-03T12:12:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T12:12:33","slug":"london-the-city-where-nobody-can-spell-my-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/london-the-city-where-nobody-can-spell-my-name\/","title":{"rendered":"London, the city where nobody can spell my name"},"content":{"rendered":"

My name is Dalma, not that difficult, I thought. It isn’t an international name, I know, but it is not difficult to say or remember. Yeah once again, I thought. The first sign was when I introduced myself to other people they asked again what my name was, they just didn’t understand – I thought. Luckily, I had my ID with me so I always showed it and then they got it.<\/p>\n

I went to the opening event of one of the societies<\/a> and there was a girl who interviewed new students. She asked me if I could say a couple of words, of course why not. The interview started and I was asked to introduce myself, name, nationality, course etc. I said “I am Dalma<\/a> from Hungary and studying Marketing Management<\/a>.” After the event I forgot the whole thing but maybe a month ago it just came into my mind so I searched for the post. After a while I found it and as I was looking for my part, I noticed a sentence: “Donna from Hungary…”. I was shocked, is it me? Yes it was…<\/p>\n

Starbucks: are they doing it on purpose?<\/h5>\n

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This name appea\"\"red on my first Starbucks order in London. The barista asked my name and I said it confidently, she asked it again and I said it again. She wrote it down but when I was waiting I noticed a cup waiting to be picked up with the name “Donna” and my order. It was mine, I was just standing there and wondering what’s wrong with my name.<\/p>\n

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After this experience, I tried to spell it, most of the time it worked, but once even though I spelt it the barista left out the “M” from my name. I just laughed because it\u00a0was so hilarious and I couldn’t believe that I spelt it and he wrote it down wrong.<\/p>\n

And after all of this I just literally gave up, no spelling, no getting upset. Just saying my name and got my coffee as they understand. That how I was “Delma” after the girl repeated my name sounded “Dalma”.<\/p>\n

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Coping strategy<\/h5>\n

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As a solution, I came up with a name which I really like – it’s international and hard to get wrong. I started to say “Zoe” as my name and what a miracle they write it down correctly! However, I ordered twice with this name and they spelt it differently but it didn’t matter, it is correct both ways.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, I realised that my name is alright but not for this country. However, I get used to people not understanding my name or misspelling. Now I am just collecting the versions and without them this post couldn’t be written so thank you! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My name is Dalma, not that difficult, I thought. It isn’t an international name, I know, but it is not difficult to say or remember. Yeah once again, I thought. The first sign was when I introduced myself to other…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":4617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[421,653],"class_list":["post-4474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-student-experience","tag-living-in-london","tag-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/international\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}