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This is the illusionist in which I, Helen Zoltzman, saved the last dance for language. Come

in up in the next episode are your stories of your name changes. Oh, very excited about

that. Coming up in this episode, a name change that took decades of wrangling. On with the show.

I had a daughter in 92. She was named Camilla after her grandmother. It was a great

daughter. Camilla with a seat. When I got the confirmation note from the national registry,

like when I tell you that your child has been named something in the registry, they had

spelled her name with a K. It's confirmed that the child Camilla, the young daughter, blah,

blah, blah. I called them because it was spelled with a C and I just wanted to tell them

it was a misunderstanding. My daughter's name is spelled with a C and she said, yeah, wait

and I waited on the line and then she came back and she said, no, it's no misunderstanding.

C has been banned in the Icelandic alphabet. C has been banned. C was banned. Yeah. That's

inconvenient. So C is still Camilla with a K. And this is really infuriated me. I was

really upset with this and I started reading up and following news about the issues here

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