Company X employee: "Hello, this is Company X."
Jen: "Hello, is Jeanne [pronounced Jean] available?"
Company X employee: "No, I think you've got the wrong company"
Jen: "I may be pronouncing the name wrong, I mean Jeanne [pronounced Genie]...?"
Company X employee: "Oh you mean Jeanne [pronounced Jan]..."
- J.C.
Story behind quote:
Jen recounts a scenario from work where she was looking for a person named Jeanne from Company X. She'd only ever seen the name written, so took to the Internet before the call to investigate the correct pronunciation; the last thing she wanted was to sound stupid whilst on the phone. The baby name websites were split between Jean and Genie, so Jen decided to take a gamble on the former. Unfortunately neither were correct.
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