My name
I quite like my name. An-TO-nia Bance. Even if no-one can ever spell my surname, leading to colleague giggles as I spell it out on the phone - “No, not V, it’s B, B-for-banana, A, N, C, E”. Tip for those who’ve never met me: it doesn’t rhyme with “dance” unless you’re American.
So I’m quite pleased by this:
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There are 94 of me.
You may be over-generalising. The word “dance” is pronounced the same way by most people in northern England as it is by Americans. Accent depends on region, social class, and many other factors.
Fair point - consider added “or from the north”.
There are 229 of me in the USA and many more in other countries.(of course this is only my stage name)
Bance-an English and Swedish surname.
Swedish Social Democrat influence?
Oddly, there are no people in America called ‘Don Paskini’, or indeed with the surname Paskini.
[...] Thanks to Jo for having this on her website, from whence I shamelessly nicked it (again!). I think she probably half-inched it from Antonia though, so shall refer to her too! (Hi!) [...]
25 of me, which somehow doesn’t ring true. America is a big place and there are enough Burgin’s there.
I have problems with how people use my surname. If they hear it they mispell it, (Bergen, Bergin being prime examples) and if they read it they mispronounce it (It’s Burg-in as in iceberg or beefburger, not Burg-in as in Virgin or dirge)
[...] There may not be many Jos or Antonias Over There, but it looks like my moniker is quite a bit more common. [...]
Hmmm. According to this lil search device, there is no one with my name in the USA. Yet a search on Google reveals one namesake, as expected.
And according to the UK version of the site, I don’t actually exist in the UK at all. Can’t decide whether to go with a “beat that” or “I am not a number (not even 0)”