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.

Tigerpaws57 like Leeoosee to me sounds like he is an English professor and wears spectacles on the end of his nose. The issue bit confused me again lol

@FuckingHateRain - I knew a gentleman who’s parents did this eg Mum called him John, Dad called him Colin. For years their neighbours thought there were identical twins living in the house . The school got round the problem by calling him John Colin and friends JC etc

I have quite possibly one of the easiest English names and people still pronounce it wrong! My dad actually told me they chose the short version of the name to call me as they assumed everyone would shorten the name anyway but they in fact do the opposite, even people in my family still get my name wrong and it really winds me up. I'm that person that if someone rings and asks for I say no she doesn't live here and hang up. One of my managers had an ongoing joke at work to call me by the wrong name because it annoyed me and he found it hilarious until I stopped doing things he'd asked because he wasn't asking me. So on that basis, I think you should speak to you DH about it whether he's wrong or you are because it might do her head in when she's older!
Also my BiL DD name is pronounced a certain way by their family but I pronounce it slightly differently (I put the emphasis at the start, they put it at the end) and I was forever getting told off for it so have had to teach myself to say it their way (imo the wrong way!)

sayhellotothelittlefella something odd with either one of the parents 😬😬😬😬

I have a William and it is pronounced Will ee um around here. The only person I know who says Willyum is welsh.
Liam is a shortened version of William and is pronounced L ee um, so how do you yummers say Liam?

CD890 so you don’t like your name being pronounced a different way but then did it to your niece even though they kept telling you were wrong? Surely having been through it yourself you would be considerate after the first time they told you?

My names Dana some people say it day-na others dah-na I absalouty hate one version of it but sometimes just let it go.

My dads name was Oliver John, his dad called him Oliver, his mum called him Sunny and my mum called him John (I just called him dad :) )

@tillytoodles1 - Eleanor Rigby is pronounced Ellen-ah.

The r at the end of Eleanor runs into the r at the start of Rigby so that's kind of an exception. If the Rigby wasn't there, the r at the end of Eleanor would be more obvious.

However, I do accept that there are different accents. I've just never heard Eleanor pronounced without an R at the end.

I think family often call people something slightly different to each other, my son Michael, I always call Michael, his gf calls him Mickey (sometimes Mickey moo!) his friends call him by his surname (which is also sometimes used as a firstname!) , and other family members call him Mike or Mick.

"Liam is a shortened version of William and is pronounced L ee um, so how do you yummers say Liam?"

Lee-am. Just as I would pronounce "Eliza" as Ell-eye-zuh and not Ell-izzuh, despite the fact that it is a short form of Elizabeth. Short forms of names don't necessarily have to follow the same pronunciation as the original, longer version.

I've just never heard Eleanor pronounced without an R at the end

I couldn’t pronounce an r at at the end of a word if I tried (well, I can roll my rrr’s when speaking French but that would sound ridiculous in my accent at the end of Eleanor). I have a fairly generic, moved around a lot accent.

MiddleClassProblem I completely understand the hypocrisy! The difference being my name gets pronounced completely wrong not just with regards to where emphasis is placed and I had no idea I was pronouncing her name wrong (for months) until I got a bollocking from the BiL and PiL in front of everyone. In this instance it was a case of regional difference. In my case its people not being able to read a name aloud. But yes, I understand how I sound like a hypocrite since I hate my name being miss said and do make a conscious effort to say my niece's name their way.

I only got the "w" in William when i put on a mockney accent

I have this with my DH... ds2 is known by a shortened version of his name but dh calls him the full name even though no one else does... luckily we pronounce it the same way even though it can be pronounced several different ways.

"I can roll my rrr’s when speaking French"

I can't even do that without sounding like I have a throat full of phlegm and inducing a coughing fit!

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I was forever getting told off for it says you kept doing it and knew it was wrong though

liz70 it took me a lot of practise, including living there for 2 years to master it!

Don't go silent OP. You have had many posts

"I only figured out Beatrix Potter was female a couple of years ago"

Eh? Beatrix has never been a boy's name. confused

Other than Beatrix Potter I've never come across anybody with the name. Some how it sounded male to me. But at least I'm not alone given another poster thought the same thing😁

I'm struggling to get my head round the idea of parents calling their kids by completely different names - that's weird

Just realised that my parents both pronounce my name slightly differently. Think saying 'un' on the end of a name vs saying 'in'. Clearly hasn't bothered me much though I do prefer one version over the other! They grew up in the same place so it isn't an accent thing.

I've heard 'Lyucy' before - think it's just an accent variation. The same person would pronounce 'suit' as 'syoot' - I've only heard people with a very RP accent say it this way.

This thread also makes me think of 'The Bridge' (tv show) where the Swedish characters call Saga 'Sah-ga' and the Danes say 'Say-ga' (or is it the other way round?)

DH has a name that is pronounced differently in England and Scotland (not a rhotic issue). I'm Scottish, DH is Scottish. We met in England. After we'd been together for several months a friend of ours said to me 'why do you pronounce his name wrong?' . DH obviously did not have an issue with how I pronounced it since that's the pronounciation he grew up with. I use a short form to avoid stupid comments now.

There are always going to be accent differences, SIL is foreign and says my name (common name used across the world) the way that is standard in her country and I far far prefer that to people saying my name 'correctly' by putting on a fake Scottish accent. I can't even say my name the way most English people say it but it doesn't bother me.

A lot of my family are English/Irish so a mix of both types of name. One of my cousins, her Irish name was completely mangled by her Dad and siblings to the degree that most of her friends also pronounce it wrong and only the Irish side gets it right

Did someone uphread said they'd name their child Catastrophe?!? Surely not?!

The child's name in Catastrophe is Muirean

MiddleClassProblem Yes because I would keep forgetting as we didn't see them very often, so the next time we would I'd say hello X the way I way used to and get told I was saying it wrong so i'd spend the rest of the time either avoiding saying her name or making sure I practice under my breath before speaking to her. These are genuine mistakes though stemming from the areas in which we respectively grew up/lived, not adding 3 more syllables to a name that only has one!
The telling offs and the bollocking were different times, the bollocking was at a birthday party and i just absent mindedly said her name in reference to the conversation I was having with someone else i.e 'oh I got X this', BiL overheard and was like 'how many fucking times do I have to tell you!' etc I was mortified and now it's ingrained in my head how to say it. I still think my issues with my name and their issues with pronunciation are irrelevant to each other although similar.

DH and I pronounce DD’s slightly differently. She’s Esme. He says Esmay, I go for Esmie (I guess more like the end of Amy). I’ve heard both used and I don’t mind, because I like how both sound.