Tiffany...

The second I saw "Ilse," I thought of Casablanca. Its one of my favorite movies. I don't think that you should shy away from it. Just hang out with a higher class of people who can appreciate you.;)

BrownEyedGirl, you have a beautiful name....ilse anne! that's fabulous! :D

well, my first name is monica (i like these name threads...they are informative)....mom wanted to name me something uncommon back in the glory days of "heather" and "brittany" and "jennifer", etc....which is crazy since she was going to name my sister sarah leah...not sarah LEE, but sarah leAH. my parents "rolleyes".....she ended up being tamara (pronounced tam-uh-ruh...not tam-are-uh or tam-air-uh) jane. we call her "tammy"....yet she finds that "trailor park-esque," so she has all her friends know her by tamara.

growing up when i would have something with my initials on it, ppl would be like, "oh, is your name melissa? no? ok, melanie! no? uh, margaret? you sure it's not melissa??" geez, ppl. LOL and it sucked b/c just when i was finally starting to like my name, the whole lewinsky drama came about. i still like my name, but oy. i've only known 3 other monicas in my life....one is one of my pledge sisters. :) that was a lil extry on bid day, being sisters with another monica!

My first name is (big drum roll here...) Nicole (what a surprise). :p
My middle name is Lyn. Little tidbit about my middle name: Of my maternal grandparent's first three granddaughters, the first one's middle name is Lynne, the second one's Lynn, and the third (mine) is Lyn. Also, my mom's middle name is Lyn. And that's my story. :D

Allison

Long Duck Dong.

-Rudey

Courtney

Amy

Dana.

special people can call me Dayday :-D

Me too! Me too!

I hatttte when people pronounce it ONDRAYA or ANDRAYA or ONDREA.....it is just plain old simple ann-dree-a!!!!

Jaclyn

Most people call me Jackie. I tried to go by Jaclyn when I started college, but it didn't catch on. The only people that call me Jaclyn are my old co-workers at the animal hospital.

Michelle

I SECOND THAT!!!!!

Its soooo annoying!

Thank God!!! I was beginning to think that I was the ONLY ONE that pronounces it that way. It is very rare that anyone ever pronounces it correctly!! Most people, including some members of my extended family, say ON-DREE-UH and it drives me nuts!

iliana, but friends/family call me ili (rhymes w/ silly)