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

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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.

No, you can’t get gooey out of Guido. It is nothing like it. It’s pronounced Gee-do. Hard G.
And that Guy/gooey story has been around for decades. My gran told me of that story years ago when I was a child, and I’m now 60.

I've found an excellent YouTube clip which begins with a Scottish lady saying "Woof Woof" . You need to catch the very start!

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https://fb.watch/ezW5fNPgP3/

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Aaargh autocorrect!

Woof! Woof!

I also don't know how to get the clip to appear online like the previous poster did!

I think Italians say Gweedo, Spaniards say Geedo, or at least this is how my Italian and Spanish friends say it.

(I agree that but everyone can know a Gooey though. It’s just a good story.)

I would say dan-ee-ELL.
To rhyme with Gabrielle

Any Yvonne I've ever met pronounces it that way too.

Ah, thanks. So it’s more woo -f rather wuff, as I would say it.

Language evolves. It's like a living, growing beast, adapting and changing. The use of Alistair is a fine example of this. Perhaps 100 years ago this was incorrect, but now it's perfectly acceptable and anyone who claims otherwise needs their head checking. There are lots of words we use now where the meaning or pronunciation has changed over time, and I've got news for all the pedants out there: this is normal and OK. After all, lots of you would struggle to understand the speech of a medieval English peasant....

Rather than wuff

My daughters a Sarah Pronounced Seh ra like fairer.
Sara is pronounced like Zara. The H on Sarah softens the name.
it bugs me when they call her Sara.

That's incorrect @Friffle I'm irish. Everyone I know over here myself included pronounces Niamh (Neeve)

Not felt comfortable asking her to be honest, she’s not very approachable.

You and everyone you know might pronounce it as neeve but that doesn't change the fact that there are two syllables in the name Niamh.

Do you also pronounce Brian as brine?

Guido is an Italian name pronounced Gweedo.

Gweedo or Gwydo are possible English versions of the time as well as Gydo.

😂

Meant to say - it’s Spanish that pronounces it Geedo.

I knew someone called Ciara who pronounced it Kee-ar-a. I was sure in my little head it was Keera.

Oh no!! Is that how you say Clara?! I used to teach a girl called Ciara and I said it like kee-ar-a 🙈 She never corrected me though...

Yet in my experience people repeatedly would call Caleb (cay- leb) cah - leeb ?!?!?!?!😳

Leila is the Persian and Arabic version of Layla and should be pronounced as Lay-la.

DH is part Persian, it pisses him off immensely whenever anyone tries to ‘correct’ DD2’s name to Lee-la. It’s so disrespectful!

Maybe in some places. Probably not if you’re growing up in Dundee though.

If I moved to America, I’d have to accept the standard pronunciation there of my name is different to the uk pronunciation. But it would have been stupid for my parents to name me and insist on the pronunciation no one around me would use growing up.

I’d pronounce them both the same, I don’t understand how they could be different.

People with rhotic accents pronounce their Rs

I would pronounce pepper as pep-urr with an audible R sound. So not the same as peppa.

@MumOf21 How did she pronounce O'nions ?
Oh neons ?

That is how I would say it. Southern English accent.