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All quiet in the west - the name meme
1. Are you named after anyone? If so, explain.
My dad always claimed I was named after a librarian at his work. When I was 18 I worked a summer job there, and there was a lady who had been there 30 years - and she'd never heard of a "Gillian" in that library. So I can only assume I was named after an old flame of his :-)
2. Do you have your children's names picked out already? If so, is there any significance?
What, apart from the ones I have already? Chris's parents chose the "Chris" part, but kept the name I chose, "Gregory", as a middle name. Adam's father chose his first name, and the middle name was my brother's first name, "Timothy".
If we were to have a girl, I'm hoping for "Rebecca Coralie".
3. If you were born a member of the opposite sex, what would your name have been?
Timothy George.
4. If you could re-name yourself, what name would you pick and why?
Nah. It took me about 20 years to get used to it, so I couldn't be bothered changing it now. The surname, though - did that!
5. Are there any mispronunciations or typos that people do with your name constantly?
Oh crumbs - where to start... The most common two are "Jillian" and "Gilligan". At work, customers tend to hear "Kelly-Ann" a lot, possibly because they aren't listening. I have people who ask me if my name is spelled with a G or a J - and it's derned difficult to pronounce the hard "G" sound with a J there.
I've also had "Julie", "Kylie" and "Julian".
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Hark! Is that a world weary sigh I'm hearing? ;-)
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The only other Gillian I ever knew was actually a Ghillian, pronounced with a J sound. Her parents had spelled it with an H out of some misguided notion that it would discourage people from inadvertantly pronouncing it with a hard G. It always seemed to me that "Ghi" is more likely to get interpreted as hard-g than "Gi."
Ghillian?!
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