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Reading Boone’s post about the pronunciation of his name<\/a> made me think about how people say my name….<\/p>\n

I was raised as Jana with a hard J.\u00a0 When I got to high school my friends played a joke on our chem teacher and told him that I was a foreign exchange student from Czechoslovakia and that my name was pronounced “Yawna” (apparently I did not then know enough English to speak for myself).\u00a0 That nickname stuck and I was Yawna or “Yawna Banana” to my high school friends.\u00a0 I loved that name and how playful and foreign it sounded to my ears.<\/p>\n

When I went to college I became Jana, hard J, again.\u00a0 Though I was rarely Jana to my ex<\/a> (only in the most serious of conversations), I was not Yawna again until a few years ago, when my social circle expanded to include many European friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n

I love being Yawna.\u00a0 Again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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