To tell DH he is pronouncing DD’s name wrong.

[DuchessOfNorfolk]

DD is mainly known as a shortening of her name. Occasionally we call her the full versio. However I have noticed DH pronounces it in a different way to how I have ever heard it pronounced. I assumed there was just one pronunciation of it. I’m wondering if it would be reasonable to point it out? Or do I just live with it.

If only everybody could use the IPA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet
and be able to type the symbols then half of these disputes would never happen.

There are still some words that plenty of accents that dominate with a short “a” still use a long “a”.

Like father.

Possibly vase?

Sorry if this is a bit of a drastic measure but you may have to discuss your dd's name with him at some point

I put the emphasis on the first syllable so it's like Ann drey uh.

My sister is Andrea and we pronounce it And ree ah, DF was from Cyrpus but DM wanted anglicised greek names

SimonBridges, bluebeck It's much like 'kahtLEEN', with the 't' sounding slightly like 'ch'.

I think that the Cate-lyn pronunciation has become pretty much standard in the UK.

Drives me mad when people pronounce dd Mad-e-line

Yanbu that would annoy me

Tarn-ya sounds ridiculously pretentious
Tan-ya sounds hard and rough

Actually Kraggle I think your fil might be closer here. I’m Josephine and there’s actually two syllables in the name pronounced Joez feen, although I have to say I pronounce it Joes feen when I have to say my full name.

Really? I would say Jo seh feen

I know an Eleanor, whenever her father talks to her she is Elly-NOR.

This could be me, dd usally goes by shortened version of her name. But husband pronounces Katherine Kath-er-in I pronouse it Kath-rin. Currently in Mexico and they as pronouse it Kat-rin, I quite like it.

Wow, if that’s all you have to worry about!!

YABU How do you know your way of saying the name is correct? And does it really matter - you know which child you're talking about.....

Aprilmightbemynewname - I've got one of those. Son Roan is 50 now and the time folk used to correct the spelling with either a 'w' or an 'h' in the middle. I can cope with the 'h' but the 'w' makes it girlie. My mum would not call me by the name I preferred. As an adult I hoped she would recognise me for whom I am. Took many, many years. "I am your mother I will call you what I like", was a frequent refrain. All gone now.

There’s only one thing which annoys me more than Kaffrin, and that’s Kaffwin

As for Beatrix, I love this name but deliberately didn’t choose it for our daughter as I hate it when people pronounce it as beer tricks.

Also love the names Charlotte and Harriet, but in our local dialect they’d end up as sharlit and harry-it, but with a soft/non existent T sound

I would say Roan as Rone (like the colour), Rohan as Ro-han, and Rowan as Ro-wun.

Sussedyouout probably not...

My exh manages to pronounce both our dds names in a stupid way. Sigh yanbu

I would say Roan as Rone (like the colour), Rohan as Ro-han, and Rowan as Ro-wun.

Same. None of those look particularly girly but then the only female Rowan I know is actually Rowanne pronounced Roe-Anne not Ro-wun.

JLo1979, I'm sorry but I think you don't know how to pronounce your own name. It has three syllables.

Esme is originally a French name, correctly written Esmée. Your husband's pronounciation is the right one 😊but little Esme will survive having her name pronounced in several different ways 😊

Jess-cuh is unlikely to be ‘correct’ if you both have the same accent and you don’t also say jess cuh

Ahh now you say norfolk I can see a difference. In nah-ritch (norwich) accent which is slightly more accented it would be Jess-i-ca but broader nahfuk it would sound more like Jessca as the I is kind of swallowed up by the emphasised s and c. I grew up there and the further out of the city you went the softer vowels came and several consonants easily disappear. It could be he grew up knowing a Jessica and that's they way your DH has therefore pronounced it.