Re: how much say do you have in pronouncing your name or town?
In high school I was friends with an offensive lineman named Kwame Harris, who almost chose Michigan but instead went on to play for Stanford and now plays for the 49ers.
I was talking about him with a friend of mine from Michigan who basically knows everything about college football, and it went kind of like this:
Friend: How's Kwame doing? (she said it like Kwame Brown)
Me: I haven't talked to him in a while. It's KWAME though (rhymes with fame)
Friend: What? no it's not
Me: That's how he says it
Friend: Does he know he's saying it wrong?
I didn't know what to say, so I laughed, even though she was being totally serious.
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