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.

Sorry for keeping people hanging. My parents are from different parts of the country and pronounce my name differently. One with a z sound and one with an a sound. However I have never heard anyone apart from DH pronounce DD’s name this way!

Bored now.

@DuchessOfNorfolk then tell people the name then you big melter

I went to school with a Helena, but her parents pronounced it 'Hel- ay -na'. But because of the Yorkshire accent, it was said more like 'Ell- ay -na' by 99% of people. If anyone saw her name written down, rather than being introduced to her, they would without fail pronounce it incorrectly - ' Hell -enn-a', ' ' Ell -en-a' and 'Hell- enn -a' and 'Hell- ee -na' were just a few examples! It drove her and her parents potty (I imagine it still does to this day).

Jessica.
He said jess-ca missing out the middle sound.

Oh FFS

colditz

There's some true-blue raging snobbery on this thread

Where? Apart from corrections from a poster about words used by the op (totally the most important thing about the thread ) I see nothing

Maybe you're thinking that the discussion about accents is snobbery?

X post 😂

Jessy -cah

Xenia
(Just a typo in the original post. It's "wrongly" not "wrong" .
Just like we eat "healthily", not "healthy")

That is incorrect - there is nothing wrong with the usage of wrong in the thread title. Wrong can be used as an adverb (scroll down on link below for examples):

en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/wrong

My friend's daughter Caoimhe gets all sorts of random attempts at pronunciation too, some quite inventive

Your DH is pronouncing it in a lazy way.

Does he do this with 'uva words? He's not a ff man instead of th?

I think you need to point out that there are three syllables in her name. And that there is an ‘i’ in her name.
Do it now while he can still change the way he says it.

People pronounce my name wrong all the time. To make matters worse it is spelled wrong on my birth certificate. My father's fault according to my mother .

My friend's daughter Caoimhe gets all sorts of random attempts at pronunciation too, some quite inventive

I can imagine! I know how to pronounce it as I worked with a Caoimhe.

It’s understandable that OP doesn’t want her child called Period.

I think if I heard someone say Jessca I’d still sort of hear Jessica iyswim?

Eminybob - Where I live your DH would be pronouncing William correctly. Your pronounciation would be odd.

agreed.. same as where I live too... it's also my brothers name

I think your DD will like that her dad has a slightly different name for her, and other people won't notice.

How old is DD?

I think I'd need to point it out.

How do you pronounce coalmhi? 🤤

Sorry spelt that really wrong 😡 to the name pp posted

Keeva.

I wouldn't say Jessica as Jessie-Ca, but not quite as Jess-Ca either.
I would put a break between the two syllables, so that it would be Jess-(uh)Ca

Some names can be pronounced two (or more) ways. Helena and Evelyn are examples, as are Tanya, as someone mentioned earlier, Naomi, Irene and Claudia. But whichever version is used, how it sounds in practice will depend on the speaker's accent.

Personally, I say Willy um. The middle syllable is quick, but it is there. I've never heard anyone say Jess ca, but I think we are generally lazier in our speech than we used to be, so it's not surprising that some of the short middle syllables in names are being swallowed up.