Do people ever mispronounce your name?

belle204 · July 2010

I can understand if someone hasn't met you they might mispronounce it. But it's annoying when you say my name is ___ and they still say it wrong. My name is Tasha (most of you know that) but the first "a" is short one like "apple." When someone asks and I say it that way they repeat it back like "ah." I always want to ask if they didn't hear me but it gets old. The only ones who consistently get it right are English teachers. :-) Of course on the flipside, Amarah's name gets butchered the opposite way. It's Uh-mar-uh and never fails someone says "uh-mare-uh."

firefightersgal · July 2010

Not my first name, but my last name gets butchered almost anytime people say it.

DandelionMom · July 2010

Always. I'm so used to it that it isn't even annoying anymore.

Julie004 · July 2010

I still never understand. lol My name is NOT hard to pronounce or read for that matter. JULIE. Somehow, over the years, people always call me JULIA. I guess maybe they are reading too fast or are just plain dumb. Hmm

I always tell them there is an E at the end, not an A.

katie277s · July 2010

Well, if I only saw your name, I would pronounce it Tah-sha, not Tay-sha. But if you said it, then I would say it correctly.

People say my first and last name correctly but rarely spell my last name correctly.

joy143dh · July 2010

No, but I am amazed at how many people ask me how to spell my name. It's Joy.

femmegem · July 2010

joy143dh:
No, but I am amazed at how many people ask me how to spell my name. It's Joy.

Wow. That's pretty sad.

Marce921 · July 2010

My first name is pretty easy and doesn't get mispronounced, however my last name is almost always said wrong. My maiden name was really easy, so it's kind of aggrivating to have my married name mispronounced all the time. Smile

ShufflerChick · July 2010

My name is hardly ever mispronounced, but it is often mis-spelled. My first name is Rachel. That's the most common spelling. Yet everyone seems to think I go by the less common Rachael. Not a big deal usually, except in email correspondence where I sign off with "Rachel" and they reply with "Dear Rachael". I just wrote out my name for you, it's not that complicated!

DevonPow · July 2010

All the time - you say my name as if it rhymes with "Kevin", but people ALWAYS say "Da-VON". They also think I am male.

Angela814 · July 2010

I probably would have mispronounced your name and your DD's the first time. I would have gotten it right after that though.

No one has ever mispronounced Angela so far. People seem to be able to spell it too.

Annalise sometimes gets Ah-na-lise instead of A-na-lise. It always surprises me though when people continue to say it the wrong way even after they've heard me say it.

GinandTonic · July 2010

DandelionMom:

Always. I'm so used to it that it isn't even annoying anymore.

This. And I went from a very Italian last name to a very American one and I was thinking - thank goodness, I won't have to spell my entire name anymore. Whatever. I still do.

AnnapolisLari · July 2010

More often than they get it right, that's for sure.

My name is Larissa. Lah-ree-sah. Not La-riss-sah, not Theresa, Letitia, Loretta, Lucinda, Louisa, Lorinda, or (my personal favorite) Lucretia.

My maiden name was also butchered regularly. Three syllables, Russian, ending in -ski and pronounced exactly the way it looked.

AnneUCSB · July 2010

Yes, my name is Anne and people say "Annie" all the time. The e is silent, people!

joy143dh · July 2010

femmegem:
joy143dh:

No, but I am amazed at how many people ask me how to spell my name. It's Joy.

Wow. That's pretty sad.

For real. My dentist's office has me in the system as "Joi"

Temp108743750006959 · July 2010

"Lauren" never gets screwed up. I do have this cousin who calls me LAUR. Hey Laur! If you know me, I am not a Laur. And she knows me pretty well, so I don't get it.

I have a German-Jewish maiden name that was nicely butchered most of my life, but I never cared.

TwoChickens · July 2010

Well, my name used to be Adrienne Broussard. Very French first name with a Cajun last name. Butchered constantly.

My maiden name (which I've gone back to) is butchered all the time. When people ask for my last name, I just spell it.

And seriously Tasha...I was thinking you were TAHsha. Wow. Hand me the bad friend award.

katie277s · July 2010

Also, I've never had anyone spell my first name incorrectly until my current job. I spell it Katie, but a lot of people I work with email me as Katy. I don't get it.

Matkinson08 · July 2010

Always. Last name is At-kin-son, just like it's spelled....not Ackins. And it's Michelle not Michael, but I completely complicated that matter when I went and married a Michael. We both constantly get calls for each other, most of our friends/family have both of us programed in their phones and don't pay attention.

belle204 · July 2010

Adrienne, I usually just go ahead and tell me "Tahsha" b/c it's not worth the headache. I mean Tash ... like Mash. :::sigh:::

mlm1128 · July 2010

Pretty hard to screw up Monica. Not much you can do with its pronunciation or many ways to shorten it! Of course Madelyn (yes, with the random y people hate so much) gets called Made-line all the time. And it irks the crap out of me since I spelled it with a y specifically so people wouldn't say it that way.

MommyofAlissa · July 2010

DevonPow:
All the time - you say my name as if it rhymes with "Kevin", but people ALWAYS say "Da-VON". They also think I am male.

That's MH's name, but he thinks he has a girls name! (I think he does too!)

TwoChickens · July 2010

I refuse to call you Tahsha now that I know better.

My name is sooooo butchered that I make it a point to pronounce names correctly. You should hear me say DB's cousin's name. Her name is Karrie. I pronounce the A like the one in your name. People I assume I'm a Yankee!!

Zenya · July 2010

all.the.time in america. My name is Deirdre (dee-ur-dreh) and people always call me DEEDRA.

KoriBrett · July 2010

Maiden last name and married last name, usually I just give up & spell it before I even say it. ?It's not worth it. ?Nobody could ever say either one.

People don't pronounce my first name wrong, but I get all kinds of wonky spellings. ?Lisa isn't that damned hard to figure out but....

gracendantho26 · July 2010

You'd have to be pretty stupid to minpronounce my first name (which as most know is not Grace) but it gets misspelled all.the.time. I will spell it out for people then receive emails, snail mail etc. with an alternative spelling. It doesn't bug me much but why bother asking how to spell it if you aren't going to pay attention to the proper spelling. And usually I say my name then spell it when I know something is going to be addressed to me just by habit because 99% of the time people would not assume it's spelled the way that it is.

luckyluvr · July 2010

Zenya:
all.the.time in america. My name is Deirdre (dee-ur-dreh) and people always call me DEEDRA.

I have a student named Dierdre, but it's pronounced Deer-dree in her case. She's very adament about correcting people. I would have pronounced it your way!

As for me, Jenny isn't that difficult, right. But everytime I hear gin-ny, with the short i instead of the e, it's like nails on a chalkboard. The spelling gets butchered a lot, too. If I were a Jennifer, I wouldn't mind Jennie, but I've given up on that battle.

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