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[Possegal]

I always wanted to be called Ann, and spell with the E at the end. :-/

Karen

My middle name is Anne and when I asked my mother why, assuming it was after her mother who was named Anna but called Annie, she told me it was from Anne of Green Gables, her favorite book as a child. In that book, the character refers to herself as "Anne, Ann with an E". So my friends often called me that, saying my middle name was Anne, Ann with an E. Long middle name.


My mother was named Edna. God rest her soul it was gladly a name that died with her in my family. I joke that when I go to heaven and meet her mother my first comment will be - what were you thinking? (Mum's sister was named Muriel, that just adds to my intrigue). My grandmothers were Annie and Bridget, both very fine names I would have been happy to carry on. Just not Edna.