To keep correcting people about my name?

[marathonrunn]

My name is Amelia as in Ah-me-lee-a.

On a daily basis people pronounce is Ah-meal-ya.

It does my head in. This is people I've known for many years doing it too. It's not my name. When I correct certain friends they roll their eyes and can't understand why it matters. It matters because it's not my name. It is a constant occurrence in the workplace and I'm constantly correcting people.

Should I give up or continue correcting?

I thought the same, a wind up,

Your example made me smile - reminded me of the late great Bette Davis.

Somebody I know kept correcting people when they pronounced her son's name "Chrishtyan" instead of Chris-ti-an. I say keep correcting!

Where are the stresses, OP

Is it uh-MEE-lia?
a-muh-LEE-uh?
a-MEH-lia?
aah-MEE-lia?
...something else?

I can't work it out from the way you've written it in the OP.

I am sorry. I'm a Londoner living in the north, and apparently I used to get on my friend's nerves because of my pronounciation. Her name is Doreen which I say Door-een - she said it is pronounced Do-reeeen. She didn't tell me until she retired, I'm always nervous when I bump into her in case I forget! :)

I'd give up.

What a numpty.

Sounds completely different in my head as many other posters said. But in real life I would have to slow my speech down to say it correctly which I would find difficult day to day.

My name is Naomi. I used to get so cross when people called me Niomi, Nayahmee, Noami,
Nowmee. It happens so often that I’ll answer
to anything vaguely similar to
my name, life’s too short 🤣

@Chooksnroses see I have the same thing with those two ways you've said about Christian. If I say them out loud they sound the same to me.

What? It’s a huge difference.

My name isn’t Amelia but it’s actually very similar in that it can be pronounced two almost identical ways, with only a small difference.

I really couldn’t give a fuck which way people use it and don’t tend to even notice. I do think you’re being precious - you’ve stated that one pronunciation is “your” name but that’s not the case. Amelia is your name, it’s just pronounced differently by different people.

I can hear a slight difference in the two pronunciations but it's very small and obviously the same name. It's a bit like that Christian example above, or William or Sebastian - some people say the -Ian bit at the end with one syllable rather than two (will-yum rather than will-I-am).
I wouldn't make a fuss about it personally, I have a name that 90% of people spell incorrectly, even when I've told them. Life is too short to get stressed about it - it's obvious they are referring to me.

The a for apple/aftershave thing - i thought of that just as i posted!

So:
A for apple

Ahhhh as in the letter r.

1. A . me . lee . A (4 syllables)

2. Arrrr . me . l'yarrrrrr (3 syllables)

That's called s-backing or s-retraction and is a normal feature of many English accents. In particularly tricky clusters, even people who don't normally have this language feature will demonstrate it. It just happens because of the way mouths and language sounds work, it's not laziness or an insult.

Nope

It must be exhausting if you've been correcting people for your whole life, pronouncing your name slightly differently, by using two syllables instead of three.

It's such a common name, in the popular sense, that I think most will know how it's pronounced. You do need to account for regional, and other factors, which might impact on pronunciation.

Or three syllables instead of four.

Maybe if you have no ear for words or names, but it’s very different to me.

I think it’s the rudest thing in the world to ignore the proper name of a person.

I don't think YABU to expect people to get your name right but it sounds like (backed by the responses here) that people cannot really hear the difference.
Is it the sounds or the inflection/stress? So eg some say Sair ra, some say Sar ra - different sounds, but some say (OK not a name) Medy sun others say Med sun.
I'm thinking it's the latter, so they are runny the sounds into one another making 3 syllables rather than 4 distinct syllables?
It could be they genuinely can't here the difference. If you correct them do you check they've understood?

Wrong:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ICi71cHuXcI

I always feel sorry for Nay omis or Nigh omis.
You are not unreasonable to correct people but whether they will change is another thing.

Ahhhh as in the letter r

Yeah, but for lots of us rhotic types Ahhhh sounds nothing like the letter R.

Whoops - now you'll get the rhotic r speakers telling you there is no R sound in the name when they say it

I'm ahead of you, babes.