Ever met anyone who (you thought) pronounced their own name wrongly?

[ErmineAndPearls]

Inspired by a few posts on the Secret Confessions thread. I once met a woman called Leigh. She insisted that everyone must call her “Lay”. Also, a whole family whose surname is Onions, but they pronounce it “O’Nyons”. Like, just own it or change the spelling. There are more.

How come you never changed the spelling so it matches the pronunciation?

I’m often told that I pronounce Bucket wrong!

Yes. This is because the "ch" sound in Irish can only be approximated in English. It could be interpreted as a "sh" or a "k". People need to be a bit more open minded

I met a baby Sigh-Anne…the mother proudly said they were going with the ‘traditional pronunciation’.
Also years ago before it was popular, an ImoGen with a hard G , as in Goat or Garnish.

Of course it can be interpreted as a sha sound if you have no knowledge of Irish the language.

@CardiffMam , two things, it's not a welsh name and that's not what a diaeresis does. It's a made-up name. The stress wouldn't fall on the an - you'd need to force it. Sian with no accents would be Shan (as in Shandy)
Sïân would be See-Ahn (long ah)

Aha! Interesting.

Although she isn’t remotely Scandinavian!

I know an Ailbhe who pronounced it Albie. Funny thing is that she grew up pronouncing it the standard way then as a teenager got bored of correcting people.

I also know a Mr Brownsword who pronounces it Browns-word 😂

I know an Isolde pronounced "Is-Old". I would pronounce it as in the opera "Tristan and Idolde" (I.e with three syllables Is-Old-da).

My friend Nicola and I went on holiday together to NYC and everyone there called her 'Nicole-ah', I wondered if Nicola maybe just isn't really used in the US maybe but I have no idea.

Why should I?

Too much of a ball ache for me to get all my new information when I can just keep my name and have people say it right

Her surname isn't a bread manufacturer is it?

It is pronounced Keera in Ireland anyway

Touch of Mrs Bucket there....

I don't think it is. Obv it's a common girls' name in UK/Ireland but in Italy it's a boys' name.

Yep Guy...pronounced "Goo-ey". Obviously his parent's fault- not his!

I’ve come across quite a few little Annay’s over the past 5 years, spelled Anäis 🙄

I know some WaDells and some LiDells - it’s fairly standard.

I know an Anäis and everyone she meets seems to pronounce it differently. A lovely name but a bit of a pain outside of France.

Me 😳 it's cassia pronounced cass-eye-ah. The correct pronunciation is cass-ee-ah. My mum won't have any different and it's been too long now. No one calls me it anyway!

@TheDogsMother
My parents were both Irish and my sister's name is Siobhan - they always pronounced it like @TheDogsMother said Chevonne not shivawn

• which always bugs me as I think that's the Anglicised version. I may be wrong ,but why would my parents have got that wrong?

@FullBush (re Kirsten/Shashten)

"she isn’t remotely Scandinavian!"

Isn't this entire thread full of people who are berating others for not using the correct original source language pronunciation for their names?

Also, have you never just asked her why she uses that pronunciation?

A name with a spelling I have only seen written down (once, a true one-off!). I'm quite positive it is pronounced the same as Sinead O'Connor.

Shinhead.

I'm a Natasha and hate the way Americans pronounce my name, sounds so wrong. Also not keen on the way Finns pronounce it either - NA-tas-ha sounds so weird with the s and h separated.

@Libre2 I would have pronounced that name Sierra.