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[fellclutch.livejournal.com]

My mother is a new college professor and she was very excited to show me her class roster. Where all of the names are painfully normal except Stepfanie whose parents were apparently very indecisive.

I was quick to point out to my mother that a "p" is only silent when paired with an "h". What an unfortunate spelling.

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[schexyschteve.livejournal.com]

"I was quick to point out to my mother that a 'p' is only silent when paired with an 'h'."

Not exactly true. What about as in Michele Pfeiffer? ;)

But yeah, I want to read it as Step-fanie.

[vanish.livejournal.com]

This!

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

The P in Pfeiffer isn't silent! It's just not a sound that works all that well in English, so we're just lazy and only make the F part of the sound.

[laminy.livejournal.com]

Ugh my god, that is lame.

[the-pyre.livejournal.com]

I actually had an RA in college that spelled it that way, her parents were from Haiti, perhaps it's an ethnic thing?

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

As a Stephanie, I always take particular offense when people mangle the spelling of my name. I don't even like it with an F at all, unless we're talking Steffi Graf.

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

As a fellow Stephanie, I want to add

WHY WHY WHYYYYYY? People misspell our name enough without any help!

[ealexsism.livejournal.com]

may have been a roster misprint?