To want my family to pronounce ds2's name correctly?

[FrannyandZooey]

I am honestly not sure if I am. I feel like this is a big deal and want them to get it right, but they are all so convinced that their way is the right way, and it doesn't seem to matter what I say, that I am wondering...

It is a slightly unusual name that can be pronounced two ways. Not hard to say, at all.

If IANBU, how do I deal with this?

Soup, never heard that pronounciation in my life.I am in the UK if that makes a difference.

Calif my kids have very USUAL names and still get mispronounced all the time..

Puffing I would like to know that too.

As to the original question, YANBU .

I had a very difficult surname which I always used to spell

btw, Lucian Freuds first name was probably really pronounced Loo-cee-ahn....seeing that he is german born....so no point arguing with that one anyway

wot soupdragon said!

maybe it's an education thing?

I am not sure why people on here are trying to make FaZ provide some proof of where she has got this pronounciation from.

It's how the name is pronounced. as she said earlier.

it is Lucian, pronounced Loo-shun

if you spell it Lucien it is pronounced Loo-see-un, which is how my family are saying i

why don't YOU prove it otherwise?

maybe people are just interested thisisyesterday? I am.

or Loot-cee-ahn might actually explain the pronounciation in german better...

Funnily enough I'd heard two Looshan's this morning before looking at this thread.

As already explained there are two spellings with different pronunciations. It's like Lewis and Louis, they're not the same.

My DH still calls my friend Hel-in rather than Helen, he's known her for 9 years and I've been correcting him for 9 years so don't hold your breath! I honestly think he just can't 'hear' the difference.

OK. This thread illustrates perfectly why OPs family have problems with the childs name. Lucian (Looshun) is neither original or exotic, it doesnt have odd spelling, it is a good and valid name. Yet people seem to not know how it is pronounced. The OP does. They chose the name for their child. The family needs to realize how to pronounce it. I think you have to be blunt. Say, "we would prefer if you pronounced our sons name the way it should be officcially pronounced. Not like Lucien, that is a different name."

it is quite funny really, with people arguing what is the correct name...let me tell ya, all this oculd have been avoided by having a phonetic language instead

I mean only in english speaking areas will you drive through villages never really knowing if you could pronounce them correctly, because the sign may say one thing...the villagers may call it a completely different one....

'Tis irrelevant anyway.
F&Z has told her family how to pronounce her ds's name and that should be the end of it.

but crumpet, as many other people have now said, that is how Lucian is pronounced. It just is.

so, why the need for her to prove where she got the pronounciation from??? just because some of you haven't heard it before? bizarre.

Just how many ways are there to say Helen???

Keep correcting them Franny.

Believe me there are at least 2. You'd have though Helen was a safe bet on the pronunciation front...

I think the issue here is that this is a name which has a common pronounciation - Loo-cee-an - which most people on here have heard of, and a less common one - Looshan - which most people on here haven't. I don't think that people are asking Franny to justify her pronounciation - I know I am genuinely curious because I have never heard of the second way, and I have actually known 3 Lucians and a Lucien in my long life - all pronounced Loo-cee-an. And the most famous Lucian - Freud of that ilk - is Loo-cee-an. So I would love to know where Looshan came from.

And yes, his family should get it right. He's 6 weeks old - they should have mastered it by now. But the rest of the world is probably going to get it wrong all his life. Which is a hard thing to live with.

"Out of interest, why have you chosen to pronounce his name 'Loo-shun?"

because that is how the name Lucian is pronounced

the name Lucien is pronounced Loo-see-un

I take the point about Lucian Freud being born in Germany, 3and. Loot-zee-un is nice, btw

I think I will have to take Custy's advice. Thanks all - especially those who gave me the benefit of the doubt that I do in fact know how to pronounce my child's name

I would pronounce it Loo-see-un if I didn't know you pronounced it Loo-shun. I like to get names right!

my 3yr old dd name is ava and my grandma still calls her ar-va. i just let her get on with it and have a little giggle about it with my mum.
as long as u know what his name is i wouldnt worry to much.

aye, i wouldn't worry either. My sons name is Fabian and pronounced Fay-be-un.To start with lots of people would say Fab-e-un, but after they heard how we pronounced it sort of auto corrected themselves. Provided we and he know how to pronounce it, then it doesn't matter much. But to start with it used to REALLY bother me!

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Loo cee an here too. But now I know.

Also in Scotland Evelyn is Ev Lyn - never heard of it being pronunced Everlyn until MN.

I also say Hel in (my mum's name and dd's middle name)

FrannyandZooey : Just above you say you pronounce his name Loo-shun "because that is how the name Lucian is pronounced . . . the name Lucien is pronounced Loo-see-un
"

That is not what you say in your OP.

There you said "It is a slightly unusual name that can be pronounced two ways."

You seem to have done a bit of a u-turn.

(Does anyone else remember "Our Lucian" from the Liver Birds. "Me Rabbits". Perhaps that's why people are using that pronunciation.)

Lovely name btw