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?

we DO call him Looshy

lol. Who are you, sean bleedin connery?

LOL pointydog

American.

SO? Did I miss the ruling that said American = wrong?

I would keep on correcting them cos if it's annoying you now it will do even more so in 10 years time!

My name is always mis pronounced and it used to really bother me, however at the age of 36 I've finally got used to it and it onlybothers me now when I first introduce myself as x and they call me y - I feel like saying did you even fucking listen to me, my name is x!!! I don;t though maybe I should!

BTW YANBU, your family are. You have told themn how his name is pronounced and they should respect that. Have you tried getting their names wrong and seeing how they like it - you can do that as you can blame the hormones still att his stage!!!!

Bear are you married to my DH?! My DH also calls a friend of mine (and his new boss) Hel in rather than Helen. He also says something funny for penguin though he now repeated exactly what I say and for the life f me I can;t remeber how he usually pronounces it, just know that it really irritates me!

When expecting DD1 Dh and I loved thename Anya pronounced Arn-ya however I just knew that everyone would get it wrong and it would bug the hell out of me, plus it didn't really go witht he surname so we chose something else instead.

F&Z - if you'd written ds2's name in a letter and sent it to them, then i could understand them not getting it right! But it must be very irritating to have them constantly saying it wrong when you're pronouncing it properly!!

I agree with Custy!

I totally understand there are different ways to pronounce names - even without spelling differences (Yvonne and Naomi are two that come to mind) but my point about Helen was that my DH still gets it wrong (friend is Helen) even after 9 years of being corrected.
ps used to know a Karin too (pronounced the same as Karen)

You think you've got problems? My Gran always called me Sandra. My name's not Sandra, it doesn't begin with an "S" and the only similarity it has with the name is that it ends with an "A" and has an "N" in it.

I have two cousins with Hungarian names which overuse the letter Z and are difficult for anyone not Hungarian to pronounce if they just see them written down. Their father (Hungarian) calls them by the English equivalents, but their mother (half English, half German) calls them the Hungarian version.

My mother was named for a distant relative called Yetta. She's not called Yetta, she's called Jean. Her middle name begins with Y but isn't Yetta. Her brother's name is Reg, but half of the family call him John. John is not his middle name. One of her cousins is called Ivan. Some of the family call him Ted. His brother was called Ted...

Another cousin is called Heidi on her birth certificate, but she's never been called that. She's called something else which isn't her middle name either.

One branch of the family changed their German surname during the war. They changed it to something French but mis-spelled it and no-one knew how to pronounce it.

I'm sure there are more - how long have you got?!

Please be grateful you're not in my family or they'd probably call Lucian Tommy!

PS The only Lucians I've known have been Loo-see-un. Oh and one Romanian one, who was Loo-chee-un.

Quint - I hope my DH isn't your DH!! Apparently (according to Dsis) I can't say the word 'folk' properly...

We all know the Americans can't spell or say anything right (this wasn't my response, BTW!)

I had an american friend who insisted her name (Gabrielle) was pronounced Gahhbrielle and couldn't understand why I couldn't pronounce it correctly.

I've never come across Gahhhbrielle before, it's always been gabrielle so it's hard to transition.

She used to say Gabi rhymed with Bobby, but to me that would be gobby? but in her area of america they say bawby. So in this sitch it's an accent thing I think.

BTW I love the name Lucian.

Well there are a lot of Karens in my neck of the woods: Ireland, where Anya (Ann yah) comes from! that's an Aine (Awn yah) derivative pronounced definitely definitely definitely without an 'R'!!

Anya is used interchangably with Aine (sp) in Ireland though.

It is considered an Anglicisation of Aine. I really like it and know a few Irish Anyas!

ok is this how the rest of my life is going to go?

Acquaintance in street: Oh hello! you had your baby then? What is he called.
Me: Looshun.
Acq: What?
Me: LOO-SHUN
Acq: Oh, LOO-see-en!
Me: Well it is like Loo-see-en, but with an 'A', so you say LOO-shun
Acq: Ah, LOO-CAN! I see! Ah, cool name!
Me:

OK.

My older brother had an very expensive, very posh, very elitist education which has fitted him for absolutely nothing in life but doing very hard crossword puzzles, knowing the answer to practically every question on every subject on Mastermind AND being a handy text encyclopoedia for everyone else in the family.

He tells me that there is an obscure Ancient Greek writer called Lucian - pronounced Looshun. However, as far as he is aware, the first name Lucian or Lucien is pronounced Loo-ci-an by English speakers.

So I think you need to buy yourself an asbestos shower cap, Franny. Or get you ds a t shirt saying. "I'm Lucian, like the Ancient Greek writer"

to your last post Franny

Yes

(sorry)

lol @ Schadenfreude's message...made me giggle...

sorry seeker but your brother can boil his head also

it is ruddy LOOSHAN

and yes I know about Lucian the satirist
[tetchy]

Franny, when signing cards with your Kids name, always put Looshun in brackets next to Lucians name and maybe one day they will all get the message.
Always annoys me when people call ys Finn instead of Flynn....also annoys me when they misspell his name....school originally spelled him Flinn...that just looks so wrong, lol....
oddly never really had problems with Yannic and Sven...people tend to get them right...alhtough, some people have been known to call es Seven instead of Sven, lol

yes write 'pronounced Looshun'.

I would do that if we choose the name Louis (pronounced Louie)

do people really get Louis and Lewis confused then?