Your pet peeves

[lady_zana]

One of my pet peeves is when people can't pronounce my name right!!! It is a simple four lettered name, and yet people still call me Sara or Sarah. It really gets on my nerves (no offence to people called Sara or Sarah of course, but I just wanted to be called by my name)!

I am right next to you, sister! My name is Zana - it rhymes with Dana. I've been called all sorts of things: Dana, Lana, Zona, even Zora.

I lived in the same small town my entire life until I went to college. All my teachers knew me and knew to pronounce my name "Zana." Then, one of my cousins married a girl named "Jana" (rhymes with Anna) from a different part of the state. Eeep! The name confusion! People wanted to rhyme our names and ended up not getting either one of them right!