About how people pronounce my name?

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They tend to run the first two syllables into one and then add the third on. Saying it that way gives rise to a common nickname for my name. One of them anyway.

It's not that they're calling me a nickname or shortening my name so I feel finicky correcting anyone.

Sweet baby Jesus, tell us the name first! Discussion is pointless without it.

You mean like people say Catherine as Cath-rin?

Can't judge at all without knowing the name.

Not possible to know without further detail. If they're mispronouncing it, just tell them so and repeat it until they get it.

Or give us an example like my name is the female version with an e , the male version without the e. Like Simon/Simone. Loads call me the male version 🫣.

YABU for not changing your username and telling us your actual name!!! How can anyone possibly provide a valid reply other than say 'keep correcting people'. 😕

YABU for not telling us your name.

Mine is Alexandra. And it fucking infuriates me when people pronounce it “Alexander” which isn’t my name.

Accent maybe?
I live in the Greater Manchester and pronounce my sons name in three syllables, but I have two friends from London,that pronounce aa two syllables it's not wrong it's just their accent.

A bit pointless without the name or a close example.

Actually I think if everyone is mispronounced it, the problem is the name. Perhaps it's difficult to say in English, or it reads differently to how it's said. Whatever it is, if everyone is doing it you can either just suck it up, or spend your whole life correcting people, and even after being corrected, they might still not be able to say it.

Same here my other son is Alexander and gets Alexandra ,it's ,really infuriating, as you say!

Or having a name that contains 'th' and having people with some accents pronounce it as 'f'. I know an American called 'Thea' who finds if particularly combobulating that in some English accents her name sounds the same as 'Fear'.

Which accent pronounces Thea as Fear?

Exactly

Non-rhotic accent that doesn't pronounce terminal 'r' and pronounces 'th' as 'f' eg 'Fea'.

You’re of course allowed to say actually my name is Sainsbury’s and I’d rather not go by Sainsy.
I also disagree with PP who try and discount international names as difficult: most of us can say the names of footballers, composers etc no problem. Of course there are exceptions but it’s evident when people are making an effort.

When I was younger (I’ve lived out of my home town and internationally for decades so really lost my accent and dialect), I’d have absolutely pronounced this ‘Fi-uh’. See also Sir-uh (Sarah), and Clurr (Claire).

My son is Alexander. When he was young one of his friends always called him Alexandra - not to deliberately be annoying, he just didn't seem to understand the difference between the 2 names. It used to annoy the life out of my son.
Of course he made sure after this everyone called him Alex.

My name is Felicity. I'm often called Flisity.

So completely missing the e , as per my post, but in a completely different way.

I used to have a group of friends of whom 2 were a couple and were called Karl and Carol. Another of the group was from Glasgow and referred to them both as Karol, which tended to cause confusion.

Isn't that more a matter of some people eliding the first syllable a bit? Like the difference between Catherine pronounced as three syllables and 'Kathryn' as two?

Thank you! I have a foreign name but it’s basically phonetic and people don’t even attempt to say it properly. Which I find disrespectful.