My name

My name is Katie - if you hadn't worked that one out. It's a very simple name, quite common and pretty easy to say - I thought. However, all this travel has made me realise that the way I say it (with an English accent) - K-tea (as it were) - really confuses people. In American they pronounce it Kae-dee, and don't seem to understand me unless I say it with that accent. In Australia.. it's Kaigh-d. Might seem a trivial problem.. but in certain famous coffee houses (ahem) they insist on taking your name when you order. In America, I gave up trying - and went with "Alice" as my new name. In Australia it all went a bit wrong..