"...and they anglicized my name."

At the first desk of voting check-in's at City Hall today.

Understandable, of course: there's only one "Y" back there, standing in as the sole vowel on duty. I usually say it, spell it, and then say it again. The "Y" takes an "i" sound, soft i, but people tend to anglicize it with an "e" *, and I end up sounding like a generic female astronaut.**

Still, they just listen and repeat, and look you up: no need to show an i.d. if you are pre-registered and your name and address show up on the master lists. Otherwise, you have to stand in another line with residential identification to register. People from more sophisticated places see potential fraud, an easy way to manipulate the system, but I am fairly confident, up here it works.

The whole city votes at City Hall, and there have never been allegations of misused identity that I am aware of. You just say your name, and they check you off the list.

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*I tried for the longest time to get Mal to pronounce "milk" properly, with an "i" sound, but he was taught with a soft "e" apparently, so "melk" it is... (for him, not me.) Drove me nuts for the longest time, until I just let it go. Chalked it up to regional differences. You pick your battles, they say.

** Say My Name, Say My Name...