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.

By the way everyone knows that the best English and the most correct pronunciations are found in Inverness. So there.
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Jess-(uh)Ca seems to be way I pronounce it. Any name could potentially have a different pronunciation depending on how you initially heard/read the name, muscle development, construction of your mouth/throat etc. If I'm having a bad day (I have Sarcoidosis) I tend to shorten words. At the end of the day it doesn't matter and initially in the far distant past it could have been pronounced Jess Eye Ka, Jess EE ca, Jees see ca. You only have to try tracing your family tree and see the variety of spellings. My surname alone has had over 27 variations.

My exh does the same with our grandaughters name. It's so annoying!

The pronunciation of 'room' by southerners makes me cringe!! There's no U in it!!!!!

No, us southerners really don’t! 😂 go cringe at something else! What a bonkers thing to come up with.🙄

I am very southern. I don't pronounce room with a U, that would come out as Rumm, like Bacardi

I say Roooomm rhymes with loom.

This just reminded me of when our teacher at school pronounced my friends name 'Sy-o-barn'. Her name was Siobahn, usually pronounced 'Shi-vawn' and this went on for months lol.
Once she found out she was so apologetic, she had never seen the spelling before! x

But agree, who cares how its pronounced, I would be more worried that you don't feel you can say this to your fella! x :-)

@WilburIsSomePig I once worked with both an EE-von and an eVON at the same time - very confusing.

I know a 'Seonaid' that's pronounced 'Shore-net' by her parents. I still remember that now and it's been about .... 20 years since I last saw her!

Her name was Siobahn, usually pronounced 'Shi-vawn'

If that's how she spelled it then it was wrong too. Bh is what makes the V sound in gaelic, so it's spelled Siobhan.

Pronunciations don't bother me too much but my name has a "th" in it and my DH always says "ff", I pull him up on it and he makes a ridiculous song and dance of trying to say "th". He can do it, he's just very lazy. Annoyingly, my DS doesn't say "th" he says "ff" because what Daddy says is law (he's only 4, he'll learn - I hope ). I encourage him to use "th" and I'm hoping when he learns phonics in EYFS that it will help him self correct.

I don't think it's snobby to want my name to be said correctly or for my DS to pronounce "th" properly.

I’m glad someone mentioned ‘droring’. I hate this. Also: lore and order, pleece (police) and pry minister, which always makes me smile.

@ruthboros

I say all of those

Also: "Hawhway" for hallway. And "Chooseday"

A close relative of DD calls her Beth-nee rather than Beth-a-nee. Very annoying.

All my family, including my own mother, who, you know, actually gave birth to me and named me(!), mispronounce my name.... out of sheer laziness. Like your DH OP, they completely omit a vowel / syllable. It annoys the shit out of me.

I've got a fairly simple, popular in the 70s/80s name, but I rarely get called by my actual name. For some weird reason people seem to have an issue with it being 3 syllables long and either just shorten it to the first 3 letters, drop a letter out to shorten syllable length or just give me a different name altogether that they prefer to my actual name, but sounds a bit similar.

I specifically chose a simple two syllable easy-to-spell fairly mainstream name for DS that had less chance of being faffed around with like mine. But no, it still does. Spelt and pronounced wrong all the bloody time, right from the off when the midwife wrote his name on his ankle band

I would say lore and law exactly the same. Just like sore and saw.
To rhyme with draw, more, Thor, tour, flaw, war, saw.

But why Simon, why?

Simon me too!

Just tell him she will struggle to spell her name correctly if she spells it as it sounds when he says it. He needs to use all theee syllables so she can learn to spell it properly.

How do you pronounce pronunciation?
I say "un" but every time I hear someone else say it they say "pronounce-ation"

I wouldnt correct you either bluebeck especially as I go by Jo anyway. 🤣 Awful old lady name. Although better than the original name that was suggested for me after a nun.

Wolfie, Simon. Can you say "tea or coffee"?
OK that OR sound in the middle, put a letter l in front of it. that's "lore", a different word from "law".
Saves a lot of confusion if southerners learn this, even though they think it is cruelty to children to learn to pronounce paw, poor and pour differently.
It's not cruel, and it helps to stop them writing words such as "coneflakes" for a popular breakfast cereal.

That's ridiculous. It's to do with the rhotic R and southern accents don't have that, so law and lore DO sound the same. It's not fucking 'wrong' it's just different.

No idea how you could argue that in any accent 'corn' and 'cone' sound the same that's just a spelling mistake, not a phonic misspelling!

‘Coneflakes’ is a ridiculous comparison..: in what accent does ‘cone’ sound the same as ‘corn’?

The idea that Will-i-am is “incorrect” and Will-yum is “correct” (or vice versa) is ludicrous.

So glad somebody said this because I was thinking the exact same thing!

I know it's to do with the rhotic R. The point is that kids in the south spell badly for that reason, "coneflakes" being an actual example of a child trying to spell a word because she doesn't pronounce that "r".