Someone mispronouncing sons name

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Would you consider this rude? To be fair I have not corrected this person, who we speak to regularly, as he is representing my son in a professional way. But despite hearing how my husband and I pronounce his name, he pronounces it in a different way. It didn’t used to bother me but it’s starting to get to me. Like he thinks he knows better than us and we are too ignorant to know how to say it.

for reference it’s a name starting with J that can be pronounced is a Spanish way with a ‘ya’ sound (not what we do) or with a J sound which is what we do as he is named for the English origin. In fact it is more common with the J sound but it is an uncommon name and so I think that he just thinks we are wrong and he’s trying to correct us.

Not sure if I am being unreasonable here to be slightly annoyed.

Correct him.

If once he knows the correct way to pronounce the name and persists, then he is behaving in the same way as some racists do.

Personally I'm usually in the 'ignore it' camp as I have an unusual name that is often misheard, mis-spelled and mis-pronounced. It doesn't bother me and I think people who get salty about it are being a bit precious.

On this one though, I'd be pissed off. It does seem like he's daring to insist and educate you, which would make me double down.

How do you pronounce Xavier / Javier ?

@pictoosh

On this one though, I'd be pissed off. It does seem like he's daring to insist and educate you, which would make me double down

But what's the point. It's one person. He's in the wrong and he is being rude but why care about it. He's saying a name incorrectly. It doesn't actually matter. People get so bothered about stuff that really doesn't matter.

I do agree with you @SuzySizzle

I have no idea? I’m not America. But also not from UK either. But we do have English heritage hence why it was an old family name.

If you haven’t even corrected him then YABU. Also you’re assuming he’s being pompous about this when you have no idea how why! Perhaps he knows someone with the same name who pronounces it differently and it’s just a habit? Perhaps you just have a bit of a chip on your shoulder.

I think his name is Julius Caesar and the OP wants it pronounced "HOOlius CezzAHR".

😂😂😂

It's Jamie / Jaime pronounced "Hi-me" isn't it.

I think that he just thinks we are wrong and he’s trying to correct us

I am fairly certain you are not as important as you think for a random professional contact to be allocating head space to correcting your pronunciation. If it bothers you, say something. They can't read your mind, you know...

I did correct him. He’s still saying it wrong. Or using his stage name.

I would correct him EVERY single time. I would do it unrelentingly and make it very awkward for him. He might think he knows best but he doesn’t. I have a name that has a very definite pronunciation (l am from the culture it’s from). I was raised in the north of England, lots of people would mispronounce it due to their accent and then get irritable when corrected.

I used to have a cockney colleague who did the same. My husband still chuckles about how she managed this, he is 100% English and he knows she was barking up the wrong tree

Agree with @TruthorDie correct every time until he learns.