Who knew?

Turns out people in Costa Rica are super into Bailey's Irish Cream.

The benefits of this are twofold:

1. Sugar free Irish cream flavored coffee (my favorite in the states) is readily available;
2. People are learning to pronounce my name. 

This is somewhat of an enigma, because all of the sounds in my name, /beli/, exist phonologically in Spanish and English. It could be a Spanish name! However, here are some of the pronunciations I get:

• Billy
• Belly (most common)
• Bayschee
• Diley (?!)

I also almost always see my name spelled "Bayle." Fortunately, I have found a way to avoid the awkward confusion of trying to explain why "Belly" isn't quite right... Me llamo Bailey. Como la bebida. My name is Bailey. Like the drink. My linguistics class got a big kick out of this, everyone laughed and I think someone made a joke about how "rica" I am.

Course now, everyone calls me Baileys. But we'll worry about that later.