hopefulHow have people pronounced your name? How is it supposed to sound?
The problem is, everyone tries to make the uncommon name Wester into something more ordinary—Webster or Western, or even Wister (author of a famous western novel, The Virginian). Back in the days when you could get on a plane without showing ID, I once flew to college as Karen Webster and flew back as Karen Wesser.
But Google has taught me that it's not good to have a dead common name (like Karen Newton, 7,320 hits) so now I always use my full name. So far as I know, I'm the only Karen Wester Newton (510 hits and they are all me).
