Assignment #4

     Olivia Ruddiman. My first name, to me, is really simple and quite easy to say. Although Olivia may be easy, Ruddiman is a different story. It originally meant the “man” who was in charge of the “rudder” on a boat. The rudder, is what you steer with, and it makes the boat turn. It’s actually quite a cool name because, we ended up sailing a boat for a year ourselves. Ruddiman has been pronounced Rudderman, Rudemin, Ridman, and a bunch of other weird names. As for Olivia, I’ve really only gotten strange nick names. Courtney has always given me nick names. Liv, Olive, Livi, Libia. One time, when Courtney had a friend over, she called me Olive, like she always did. It didn’t really bother me, until she decided to add onto it. Then, it suddenly became Olive Oil. The next day at school, her and her friend called me this in front of other people. It eventually just caught on. I swear, by the end of the year, half the people at school, knew me as “Olive Oil”. Even though my name is not always pronounced correctly,( or even my name at all), I love every part of it.