The dash ain't silent

This week, I am not sure what Sara and I were talking about but she mentioned one of my favorite stories that I nearly forgot about. How I could almost forget this little gem is beyond me. This unfortunately didn't happen to me but nonetheless, it's still a treat.

A girl on my volleyball team in Chicago was a teacher in the Chicago Public school system. As you can imagine, she is not short on amazing stories. Apparently, this is some kind of urban legend, but hand to God, it happened to her. If I were a Kardashian, I would say bible. 

A new girl started at her school. Her name was La-A. That's right, La-A. Of course, everyone had the same question - how the hell do you pronounce that? "La-ah? Lay-ah? Apparently, all the teachers struggled with it all day. This poor child went home and told her very classy and educated mother that no one knew how to properly say her name. This intelligent mother went to the school the following day, completely distraught over the fact that no one could pronounce her daughter's name. She explained, "I don't know what's so hard about her name. The dash ain't silent. It's Ladasha." Poor kid. She is just screwed from the get-go (not get dash go). 

Since when do we pronounce punctuation comma question mark

Things that don't need to be pronounced aloud.