Pronounce females the way you pronounce tamales.
@Meshelly I don't envy that girl when she goes to school :-(
Just hoping parents did come to their senses and changed the name at some point.
At this point, she'd be 21 or 22. So, if her parents didn't fix it, she can. @isagalaev
@Meshelly yeah, but by this age her name is a huge part of her self, so it's a big decision to change it.
On the other hand, it's all just guessing. She might be a person who doesn't care in the slightest, or whatever :-)
I'm legally changing my name within the next couple years, and I am a lot older than 22. Just because a name was given to you, doesn't mean it's a part of who you are. @isagalaev
@Meshelly I'm saying that treating or not treating your given name as part of who you are is totally subjective :-)
@viciousviscosity This may beggar belief, but once I encountered someone who was reading "Academic Bowl" questions, got to one on biology, and somehow managed to read "females" as "feh-MAH-lees" before catching and correcting himself.
@mona I can see that happening. I’ve heard some very interesting pronunciation of words being read off of cards, when the people don’t actually read ahead of what they’re saying.
Now I'm having flash backs of my (very white) grandmother saying pronouncing it "TEE-MAILS" very loudly in the middle of a south american restaurant.
Okay, story time:
When my daughter was born, there was another girl who was born. My daughter had a name chosen already, so the card on her crib said her name. The other baby, did not yet have a name chosen. As a result, the card on her crib said 'Female' and the family's last name. They came up to the NICU, saw the card, and said Female! What a beautiful name!! (pronouncing it like tamale) And I shit you fucking not, that is what they named their kid. @viciousviscosity