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Monday, June 05, 2006
My name has an "h" and my blog has a "/"

As everyone knows; my name is Arabic but not widely used in the Arab World; it is more used in Iran, Pakistan and Bangladesh. I really do not know what made my parents choose this name for me; maybe because my elder sister's name is Kholoud and they wanted something close.

Growing up; I did not really like my name that much especially that almost all my teachers made a funny face when I said what my name was. At university; my name was always spelled in a wrong way and I was therefore mistaken for a guy.

When I wanted to issue my passport; it was after I finished high school and my father wanted to send me to France to live with my uncle in Nantes and study at its university, so I had to translate my birth certificate to French; hence write my name in French. My name officially became "Khalidah" with an "h" at the end.

This is the name that I used from that day onward. Still; a lot of people remove this "h" when they write my name and this really annoys me and makes me sad at the same time. I do care how I spell everyone's name and I appreciate it when someone brings it to my attention that I misspelled their names.

You might be asking yourself; why is she blogging about this? Well; the answer is very simple: there are a lot of people out there who misspell my name and remove the "h" so instead of sending them separate notes on this issue; I thought it is easier to write a note in my blog about it. I am expressing this freely because I follow this lovely quote by Theodore Seuss Geisel who said: "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind"

You all matter to me a great deal!

Since we are in the correction mode now; please note that the URL of my blog has a "/" at the end and it is extremely important because if you remove it from the URL, you will get an error of "The Page Cannot Be Displayed", try it:

http://anolita.jeeran.com/mind

Now try:

http://anolita.jeeran.com/mind/

This is a call to anyone that by any chance misspelled my name by removing the "h" and removing the "/" from my blog URL. I thank you for linking to my blog if you are and I thank you to correct the above-mentioned so that all internet records are the same. Please add the "h" to my name and the "/" to my blog!

*Note: For non Arab readers; my name means Eternal or immortal  

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(22) comments
On June, 05, 2006 10:31 AM , hareega
from United States said:

A few things always get lost in translation, and when it comes to your name it becomes annoying.

In case anyone here reads my blog, please don't an "H" in the end of hareega

On June, 05, 2006 10:31 AM , Roba
from Jordan said:

LOL! Awesome. I think I'm gonna write a similar post. I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE MISSPELL MY NAME.

On June, 05, 2006 10:59 AM , 7ala said:

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind".
I loved this quote Khalidah, and I think Its deeply right.

I know what you are talking about but at least people say your name in the right way but me ... oh I hate it when they call me "هلا" or "هالة" I love my name and because of that I write it in the chat language with "7" because Its "حلا".

I liked the post and I think Roba is not the only one who will write a similar post :-)

On June, 05, 2006 11:04 AM , Ohoud
from Jordan said:

Yeah, I know what you mean. I ahve the same problem.

One of my Profs even calls me "Aboud", since once he called me that by mistake, now thats how some colleuges call me in Uni:D

On June, 05, 2006 11:17 AM , lammoush
from Qatar said:

khalidah, u have a special name,
and its ok i understand how people say things in the wrong way,
my name is lama, and all non arabs tend 2 say: laama, not really nice ha??
and yes i used 2 correct them all the time and teach them what it means and how u say it :) sho beddek te3mali :)

On June, 05, 2006 11:51 AM , bakkouz
from Jordan said:

UH OH !! it would seem i've made this mistake :(
I'm so sorry! i dunno how this happened i assure you it was an honest mistake, its has been corrected :)

On June, 05, 2006 1:15 PM , Roobeekah (AKA Rebecca
from Jordan said:

I think my name gets written wrong every day! Then there's also the trouble people have with my full name. I'm saving up misspellings of my name to write a post about it.

On June, 05, 2006 2:37 PM , TH14
from United Kingdom said:

whatever you says khalida

http://anolita.jeeran.com/mind works fine with out the forward slash at the end.

On June, 05, 2006 4:14 PM , jameed
from United States said:

Huh? What are you talking about. I second the comment above. Both URLs work fine in FF. Stop complaining about an "H". Again, try being an Iyas in the US.

Regards to your brother who, if you have one, I assume his name is Khalid.

On June, 05, 2006 5:59 PM , Nidal
from United Kingdom said:

I would have to say I was never bothered about people spelling or pronouncing my name! Which is just as well.
I do however like your name, but I like the quote even more, I am going to have to steel that one.

On June, 05, 2006 7:10 PM , Ramroom
from United Arab Emirates said:

Hi Khalida, :) :) :)

Some people used to call me Reem instead of reema!!! which used to get on my nerves. So whenever I saw one of them I would take out the last letter of their names out when addressing them. I called Mufid " Mufi" for example. That's how they got to learn that my name ends with an " a". I know how it feels sista :)

On June, 05, 2006 7:13 PM , قويدر
from United States said:

I fixed my links khalidaH, But Khalida and Khalidah do the trick

As for the trailing backslash, that's optional, it's even more correct to not include it, but as you wish, updated my articles and my link

On June, 05, 2006 7:14 PM , قويدر
from United States said:

Hehehe .. I just realized, You sound like OpraH

On June, 05, 2006 7:30 PM , Khalidah
from Jordan said:

Hareega ... My name got really lost :)

Roba, I knew you would understand :D

7ala, yes, isn't that quote just great?
Thanks for understanding

Ohoud to Aboud?? didn't he have his glasses that day? LOL

Lammoush, welcome to my blog and thanks for the comment ..
Laama is not quite flattering .. I get what you mean!

On June, 05, 2006 7:38 PM , Khalidah
from Jordan said:

Bakkouz, shokran ya zameel ... :)
Apology accepted and you are forgiven .. LOL

Rebecca, I will be waiting for your post :D

TH14, Hi ..
Actually it was not working before and I guess they fixed this glitch .. sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for pointing it out

Jameed, yeah I am sorry about that .. but about the "H" .. no can do dude ... I want my "H" I want my "H" I want my "H" I want my "H"

My brother's name is Ali .. my uncle's name however is Khalid :D .. typical ha?

Nidal, thank you and feel free

Ramroom; great idea wallah .. but my problem is not how they pronounce it .. it is how they write it but I guess this can work!

Qwaider .. teslam .. but how do I sound like Oprah???

On June, 05, 2006 9:31 PM , Laith Zraikat
from Jordan said:

The slash problem has been fixed a long time ago K ;)

On June, 05, 2006 9:35 PM , Laith Zraikat
from Jordan said:

"Roba", you always complain about your name even though you're the one who uses the wrong spelling.

It should be RUBA not ROBA, but we will do our best :)

On June, 05, 2006 9:38 PM , Khalidah
from Jordan said:

Go figures .. Nobody tells me anything these days ... when did you fix it?

On June, 06, 2006 12:16 AM , Hadeel said:

I get mine in different ways...mara hadeer, hadeek, hadel, hidle....So don't worry khalida at least you wont be mistaken for an indian, pakestani or from srilanak :(

On June, 06, 2006 8:55 AM , willy g
from Jordan said:

I hate it when people use "i" instead of "ee" when writing my name,which is Waleed

On June, 07, 2006 2:18 AM , ghaloosh
from Jordan said:

I also write my name with an H at the end, and people misspell it, i hate it when they do that, some people would say that's just a letter it's not big deal, but to me, it matters alot how i write my name...

On July, 15, 2006 8:23 AM , +8801712761072MASUM
from Bangladesh said:

Thanks for deep thinking!