AIBU about my name?

[Afropop]

My full first name isn't common at all. And though easy to say when you know there is one sticking point about it. Because it is in another language one of the letters makes a different sound. I suppose like w said as a v (like in german) or maybe a single s said like ss not z.

The short version of my name is what most people call me and this doesn't have that problem (it is a very recognisable name)

Anyway some people call me by my full name (mainly people I have known for years but aren't best friends with)

I was talking to one if them tonight on the phone and she said my full name but said it incorrectly. I corrected her (didn't say anything just said my name back as it should be said)

Her reply was 'to get over myself Afropop. You never corrected us when we first met.'

This is true. When we met, we we were 5. I didn't correct people. I was a shy 5 year old. But once I was around 10 I started to correct people- everyone, people i met, teachers, classmates and friends.
Most took it on board but 4 friends did not.
Whenever I correct them the reply is always that i didn't when we first met and I should have.

So really AIBU to keep correcting them about the pronunciation about my name?

My first name, despite not being particularly difficult to pronounce, is frequently said wrongly. I just ignore, it although as a child I told my teacher that I wished I had been called Anne.

YANBU. I'm in a similar situation, and it is really annoying when people I've corrected continually get my name wrong. Talk to them again.

I have a double-barrelled first name which is unusual but very easy to pronounce. Whenever I meet someone new I introduce myself using my full name (cos that's my name) and the new person always says back "good to meet you first half of my name" or "is that first half of my name or would you prefer full name?" .

Why wouldn't you use the name exactly as the person who owns it has just said it? I don't get it and it really pisses me off tbh.

If it's a sound that the speaker normally speaks fine then YANBU at all, if it's a sound that's very uncommon (The correct pronunciation of Vincent van Gogh is the one that sprung to mind) then your friend might have more of an argument as long as she makes some effort, but still then YANBU, but it may be a little harder if they don't have to pronounce it often.

have a work colleague whose name looks like a common English one. I didn't work on her team for about 5 years but had continually seen her name written down on rotas. In my mind she was now firmly clawdia, but when I fnally worked with her it turned out that she was "cloud-ia" and not "clawdia".

I know this. I don't want to offend her. But my mind won't help me out at all on this one. I almost always say Claw-dia before I say Clou-dia. It's got to the point where I've just stopped using her name, because I know it's going to come out wrong.

Are you sure your friend isn't just incapable rather than deliberately rude?

The person who mentions about rolling rs - I have a friend whose name requires a rolling r sound. Her dp can't physically make the sound - although she is relaxed about it. If you don't say certain sounds you don't develop the muscle tone to be able to say them. People aren't necessarily being deliberately rude.

And tbh I am relaxed the other way about it. My surname has a th sound. People from some other countries struggle to say this - and thats fine in my view. As long as they try to say it I am fine with this.

Fred the sound is a very common sound in english, just not paired with the letter in my name usually. So if you heard my name spoken correctly you would automatically put in a different letter and an additional one for it to make that sound in english.

Thing is I dont mind people getting my name wrong but to tell me that in correcting them I need to get over myself..,

Thanks

Ohh and my maiden name has a sound that is unheard of in english and people really struggled to say it. I didn't mind that because they did try and it is a very odd / hard sound to make. But at least people tried.