Stage name or pseudonym?
If you look up Guilford County's recently-named interim planning director, Nancy Roy, you might find a woman with two
names.
Roy goes by "Nancy Fiorillo" in Moore County and everywhere else.
Why the distinction?
"So I don't want to have to spell my name a million times a day," she said.
There is an obvious difference between the two. "Fiorillo" could play more tricks on the ear than "Roy". Roy is the name she carried through much of her professional career. Fiorillo is a name she picked up through marriage.
Either way, 'Scoop welcomes both Nancy Roy and Nancy Fiorillo to the county. And we thank her for picking a name that's easy to spell.
As an aside, Roy is looking for places in Greensboro while she steers the planning ship.
"If you know anybody who has a short term rental, let me know," she said. We hear she's looking around Fisher Park.
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Why does it never shock me that anything that sounds slightly foreign to residents of Greensboro sends them into a tizzy? And do they realize how "ugly American" it makes Greensboro look by asking anyone whose "name" is different to change to accommodate us?
Come into the world Greensboro! Come into the 20th Century! (No, that's not a typo, because even before then, people with foreign names were arriving in droves to US shores, and everyone has attempted to embrace the pronunciations and spellings with graciousness, instead of butchering them EXCEPT for us good old supposedly hospitable folks from Greensboro)
Posted on June 13, 2008 3:43 PM
Amado-
Roy chose to use that name on her own, and has done that for some time:
http://archives.thepilot.com/April2005/04-17-05/041705Pollution.html
Posted on June 13, 2008 3:51 PM