Audio Name Pronunciation
Kelly Barnhill |
A recording introducing and pronouncing Kelly Barnhill.
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Kelly Barnhill: Hello. My name is Kelly Barnhill. It's a name that is not the name that I was born with but it is the name that I adopted when I got married. But one of the fun things about this name is that it actually comes from Scotland. There are some very interesting Barnhill's that were living in Scotland. It is a long history of storytellers and a couple swindlers and a couple of people who found ways to reinvent themselves in Ireland and then they reinvented themselves in the United States. It is a name that I wore with a little bit of trepidation at first but now I wear it with a lot of confidence because there is, I think a little bit of the swindler in anybody who tells stories for a living because you always have to break down people's belief systems a little bit and you always have to get people to suspend their disbelief in order to enjoy the story. So I feel like I have a lot of affinity with the con artists of the world. And apparently I'm related to some of them so that's kinda fun, too.
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