What’s In A Name?
The battle is over and the Thiele family lost. After input from many friends (and a few enemies) we’ve decided to change the spelling of my last name from Thiele to TEALY. As a child, my friends were so mortified of mispronouncing my name that would just call me “James Tee-Dot” as in James T. (I guess they were scared to go any further than the “T”). Or they would aim their darts instead at “James Tea Leaves.” Ahhh, Good times. So…you may pronounce my name as was always intended, but for the sake of the record it will now be spelled TEALY. Questions? Comments? Direct your mocking here.
April 27th, 2005 at 4:17 pm
i must say, i’ve always been a fan of ‘tea leaf’ myself.
Beth Hensey (that’s how everyone wants to spell it anyway! I’ve been fighting the battle for almost 30 years now myself!