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[politicking.livejournal.com]

A woman on one of these court tv shows is named Kathryn. When the judge asked her to read a paper where the ex-landlord had misspelled her name as Katherine or Catherine, she read it as Kath-ER-een.

Are people really that dumb to not recognize one of the original spellings of their name?

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[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

I had an e-argument with someone over that name. She is Australian and pronounces Kathryn differently than Katherine, where I (from the US) don't think they're that different. One has an extra syllable, but they sound pretty much the same. So.. maybe that's one explanation.