Spelling names

[Sallie Lemons]

I am reminded of a joke threaded through an old Cukor film, Holiday, which
starred Katharine Hepburn and Gary Grant. Grant's pals in the film are a
married couple name Potter. Everyone calls them Porter. The first time it
happens, the man responds to his wife, "I thought our name was Potter. I must
have been mistaken." Another time he suggests, "Maybe if we change our name
to Porter, people will call us Potter." Well...it's funny stuff to me. Given
the common usage of my last name, it has always seem ludicrous that I should
have to spell it. But I, like Ron, have adopted something I heard my dad say,
"Lemons, like the fruit."  :-)))

RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:

> people often think my last name is BUTLER; my great-grandfather began the
> practice of telling people that he was "Butter with an 's' on the end"; I
> still use that from time to time.
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