{"id":72679,"date":"2015-09-16T10:28:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T15:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=72679"},"modified":"2015-09-16T10:27:13","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T15:27:13","slug":"khan-kahn-caan-khaaaaaaaan-a-homophone-trick-for-your-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=72679","title":{"rendered":"Khan, Kahn, Caan, Khaaaaaaaan!!! A Homophone Trick for Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>by <a title=\"Naomi House, MLIS \u2013 r\u00e9sum\u00e9\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?page_id=3853\" target=\"_blank\">Naomi House, MLIS<\/a><br \/>\npreviously published 5\/23\/14<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Khan, Kahn, Caan, Khaaaaaaaan!!! A Homophone Trick for Email<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3601.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5026\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/IMG_3601-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3601\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Back in 2007 when I was helping my husband set up his moving labor business <a href=\"http:\/\/khanmoving.com\" target=\"_blank\">Khan Moving, LLC<\/a>, we realized early on that approximately half of his customers misspelled his name; his name is <a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=5025\" target=\"_blank\">Sana<\/a> <em><strong>Khan<\/strong><\/em> but they spelled it <em><strong>Kahn<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 So we signed up for two Yahoo email accounts (yes, Yahoo) but we needed something more.\u00a0 We knew that in the DC area we were likely to have repeat customers and repeat customers would be searching their emails to find him.\u00a0 We needed them to find him easily without thinking about the spelling of his name so I hit on this idea and it has worked splendidly for us these past 7 years.<\/p>\n<p>We hid the name <em><strong>Kahn Moving<\/strong><\/em> in white text at the very bottom of his signature, a few lines below it in fact.\u00a0 This way it does not show up BUT it does show up in email search results.\u00a0 I think this is a great tip for anyone whose name could be spelled a variety of ways and it works for us!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">Khan Kahn Caan Khaaaaaaaan<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Naomi House, MLIS previously published 5\/23\/14 Khan, Kahn, Caan, Khaaaaaaaan!!! A Homophone Trick for Email Back in 2007 when I was helping my husband set up his moving labor business Khan Moving, LLC, we realized early on that approximately half of his customers misspelled his name; his name is Sana Khan but they spelled&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=72679\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[6240,10,46,6,6152,79],"class_list":["post-72679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-homophone","tag-inalj","tag-khan-moving","tag-naomi-house","tag-naomi-house-mlis","tag-sana-khan"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/sana-khan-kabob.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-iUf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}