Pronouncing Scandinavian names - pet peeve

😂

She might as well have called her Pappskalle.🙃

Would have been the shorter version.

Very patronising.

Agree, patronising and unnecessary.

@AndiOliversGlasses “There is no correct or incorrect pronunciation where names are concerned.”

Yes there is! I worked in an office where someone mispronounced my name for five years and did not see it as an issue. Obviously I just had to give up in the end, but it’s pretty horrible having someone call you a random word for half a decade. It’s lazy and rude, but they thought the same as you, that there wasn’t such a thing as incorrect pronunciation. My name in English is two syllables and it’s basically Ian with an R in front of it. Lazy and disrespectful. And as I say IN ENGLISH, I wasn’t making them speak Welsh.

I’m sorry, but it is so annoying when people write ”I fixed it for you.” OP is capable of having her own thread and opinion and she has stated several times that it is light hearted.

So if a person that actually speaks the language correctly, pronounces the name, please don’t throw a hissy fit and correct them

@dylexicdementor11
I'm curious whether you'd continue to use a Scandinavian pronunciation when you discover they pronounce their name differently though?

I mean some people might be charmed at someone using a different, arguably more authentic pronunciation, but lots of others might prefer the way they're used to.
And it's their name after all.

If everything could be done without hissy fits it would be great of course!

Watch out, Trump wanted to buy Greenland a few years ago. He is deluded. 😂

But you are doubling down on your statement that a British person who uses a Scandinavian name is MISpronouncing it!

They are not getting it wrong or making a mistake, they are choosing to say the name in the way that best suits their accent, when speaking in English, not Norwegian, Swedish or Danish. There is no correct or incorrect pronunciation where names are concerned. You can’t say it’s mispronunciation just because the name originated in your language.

Here, I’ve fixed it for you:

As a Scandinavian, I think it’s quite charming that Scandi names are all the rage. However, if you do not speak a Scandinavian language and you decide to name your child a Scandinavian name, or if you have a Scandinavian name please be aware that you are probably not mispronouncing the name in the authentic Scandinavian way.
So if a person that actually speaks the language correctky, pronounces the name as it is spoken in the original language, please don’t throw a hissy fit and correct them. 😊”

Ha ha, this reminds me of my mate Caoimhe.

Call her Keeva, all is well, call her Queeva and all hell breaks loose! Both are acceptable Irish pronunciations!

Someone shouted at me yesterday because they said they had a nice time in the Valleys, but they were in Cardiff… apparently I shouldn’t have corrected them because ‘I knew what they meant’. What I do know is that that you couldn’t care less about the geography of the place you were in! Not only do maps exist… but also there is a massive cultural implication attached to the Valleys. And I am from Sirhowy Valley myself. But I’m the prick because you had a day trip to Cardiff and were ‘trying to be nice’. Bloody doughnut.

Thank you, I am fascinated and want to go to Greenland.
There is no way we have a Greenlander on here?

@gardenmusic

Scandinavian in general denotes Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.

You are far from the only one. I think lots of pepple in Scandinavia don’t know this about Finland either tbh! You are lucky to have travelled a lot, and this is not very important information anyway. We have similar life styles and standard of living.

They're both reasonably right, though a native Irish speaker would not use the hard K sound.

It would be more like Surr-uh-kha.

Soresha is every shade of wrong possible.

Grabs coat and skedaddles....

Thank you for the replies. Sorry, feeling very dim, but:

'If you visited Finland you were in a Nordic country. The Nordic Region consists of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, as well as the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland'

So where is Scandinavia?

I am 66, and I did not know this, and I have been to Sweden, Norway, Iceland...

You shouldn't hiss no matter what...

Dd1 and ds have Danish variants of Hebrew names.
I just smile then people say it in Hebrew.
We have often been asked in Denmark if we were Jewish because of dd1s name. It's spelled Scandi way but not common known in Denmark but British spelled common in UK.

Names are great fun.

I feel this way about Irish names. It's my pet piamh 😏

It’s still done in Iceland.

Finland belongs to the Nordic countries (Norden), not Scandinavia. But many of us here in Scandinavia basically see them as Scandinavians.

@gardenmusic

If you visited Finland you were in a Nordic country. The Nordic Region consists of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, as well as the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland.

'Secondly, Finland is not in Scandinavia'

You learn something everyday - I have been there, to Levi. Where was I, if not Scandinavia?

Do not see how the context changes anything. You at right not to ask people to "throw a hissy fit", but you're wrong to ask people not to correct you from saying their name wrong. And you're wrong to say that your OP never implied that you think people are mispronouncing their own names.

I'm not het up. I like names and have opinions on cross cultural names.