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.

Well you seem to be hearing something different to everyone else...

@LizzieAnt

Well it might well do.. but there’s no more of an inflection on the end (other than the middle bloke) than there is for Maeve - and I wouldn’t describe that as Mayve-uh it’s just Mayve

@WitchWithoutChips no I have not changed it yet.. I was not financially stable until a few years ago and when that did happen I kind of started to feel like it doesn’t matter anymore now.. I know how it is pronounced and know it is spelt wrong so I don’t get as bothered when it’s pronounced wrong now but I would let them know how it’s pronounced and if they asked I would explain my mums error (not the registry office).. I don’t get all pissy at people as it isn’t their fault which I recognised very early on!

Omg what! 🙈

Ooh yes Dylan 😱
I think that's in the same place as Caitlin now, its anglicised version has a separate life from the Welsh so maybe it's not so wrong these days.

I am enjoying the Niamh wars also

@CharlieAndTooManyCharacters no, the French pronounce it "Gee" with a hard G- think "Glee" without the L.

Definitely not gooey!

(Hoping that Kirsten is not going to tell me about Welsh Dillons who pronounce it Dylan 🤯)

Threads like this always remind me of Cockburn's port. It's not pronounced how I thought it was being a young'un working in a supermarket.

KOH-burnz who would have thought?

And the ones that insist igh, ie, and i-e make the same sound.

The sound in the middle of night is not the same as the sound in lie.

Tie, tight, and time all have the same igh sound.

Everyone should pronounce it gooey.

Tbh, I think it’s totally fine for the French to pronounce names in French ways. DS2’s name comes out brilliantly in the hands of the French. If we moved to France, that is what he’d be called because going around trying to get them to pronounce it like Scots would be futile and a bit rude.

I know a Lee eye la too

Ah, what a cop out from your mum! She must know how she pronounced it when you were a baby?!
It can be either, I guess. If you were brought up as a Dan-yell then you're a Dan-yell. If you're brought up as a Dan-i-elle you're a Dan-i-elle. But all the Dan-yells are just dropping the middle syllable 😁

Not in my accent they don’t. It’s most definitely not the same sound. Tie has a different sound to time and tight. Tie has the same sound as sigh.

I realised after watching something set in Yorkshire that if you name your child Holly in parts of the north, you have actually named them 'Olluh' 😁

you do know that regionally Irish has many different pronounciations. DH was taught Leinster Irish and says some words differently to me who was taught Munster Irish. Is it just possible that the 2-syllable versus 1-syllable pronounciation of Niamh is one of those regional difference. It's not like people are pronouncing it Niandra. Or have you laid down the law and that's that.

Used to work with a lovely young girl called Alana. She was named for her dad.
She didnt pronounce it Al-an-ah, she was adamant her name was Alan-a.

Oh and the Irish names-my friends daughter is called Aine (can't do a wee comma above the e but its there!) Pronounced Awn-ya. Love the Irish/Gaelic names-am scottish though!

I can hear the uv sound at the end of all of them though, so it is there even if you're not picking up on it.

I'd hazard a guess that some of the Neeves you met from all around Ireland were actually saying Nee-uv.

I agree there's no similar sound in Maeve.

I thought Kirsten was Kishdin/Keeshdeen in Swedish and Shishdin in Norwegian. I say it as Curseden, obvs.

Wholeheartedly agree with Fivebeanchilli on Eleri. El-erry. It rhymes with Ferry, Kerry and Terry. If you hear Eleri as El-airy then you probably say Ferry as Fairy and Ceri as Carey.

Guy in French is Ghee.

French Edith is Edeet (short ee)

@Bovrilly, because the family has had the surname Evans for many generations, and it was forced on them. Because elderly relatives lived in a time when names were registered as the anglicised versions.
Someone wanting to call their child Efan or Ifan would use those spellings. They are not unusual names. If you don't understand, then why challenge? You said yourself that your Welsh is dodgy.

@JackieCollinshasnoauthority , every Dylan ever sad his name as Sarah?
FWIW, Dylan Thomas did not speak Welsh.

Had a friend with a strong Scottish accent who told me about her friend R-eye-na.
Turned out to be Raheena.

I hope it's above the A rather than the e!

I have a family member called Joanna. Not a hard name at all but SO many people pronounce it JoWaan.

I would pronounce it Neigh-o-me- with the emphasis on Neigh

I'll admit that at 25 pages long I have not RT (whole) F (long)T

However....
(in support of any PPs)
It's THEIR OWN NAME - leave them to pronounce THEIR OWN NAME how ever they like