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Feb. 13th, 2006 10:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mighty_aphroditeMy intial excitement at being accepted to Santa Barbara has ebbed since receiving the official letter today addressed to MS. Angela ANCELOT. MS.????? ANCELOT????? I'm married, thank-you-very-much, and my name is ANCELET. I understand that my marreid name evokes the Arthurian spirit in people, but can they please resist the impulse?
It's really rather deserved, though, seeing as though David's family changed their surname from Ancelot to Ancelet in the eihgteenth century. Now we are doomed to be forever misspelled. And misprononuced, which is why we Americanized the pronunciation. However, I almost think I may use the French pronunciation professionally, for the same reason I run my A and E together when I spell AEneas- because I like to be pretentious that way. That said, I am really tired of this flu/cold/whatever-it-is that comes and goes and changes its symptoms daily. On that note, I am going to bed. I have a long day of Berman, Naziism, thesisizing and Latin ahead of me, which, now that I think about it, is more homogenous a day than one might initially think.
It's really rather deserved, though, seeing as though David's family changed their surname from Ancelot to Ancelet in the eihgteenth century. Now we are doomed to be forever misspelled. And misprononuced, which is why we Americanized the pronunciation. However, I almost think I may use the French pronunciation professionally, for the same reason I run my A and E together when I spell AEneas- because I like to be pretentious that way. That said, I am really tired of this flu/cold/whatever-it-is that comes and goes and changes its symptoms daily. On that note, I am going to bed. I have a long day of Berman, Naziism, thesisizing and Latin ahead of me, which, now that I think about it, is more homogenous a day than one might initially think.
