Well is a two-syllable word

A girl I knew in college who I thought was my friend but later turned out not to be, was always correcting how I said my last name. My own last name. Mine. McKinney, she would say, and what she said sounded exactly like what I thought I had said. Say “pen” she said. I said “pen.” Say “pin,” she said. I said “pin.” “No,” she said, “you said “pen” both ti…