Should I just suck it up

[Scaredofthedark]

and accept that it's my fault for naming dd something a little unusual?
She started her initial visits to primary school this week and all going well except gerteacher has failed to grasp her name. It's Alyssa (A-liss-a).
Not aleesha!

Her older sister is katie, more traditional,but again, like everyone, I have my reasons fir this choice.

Is it my fault?
I named her this as I liked it,thought it was pretty, also had loads of alyssum flowers in the garden during pregnancy. Also a derivative of Alice, so mayer should have just called her that!!

But really I like the name and not really regretting the choice, just teachers inability to grasp something as fundamental as her name. Doesn't really bode well if this is how it begins.

AIBU?

I don't think the name is weird. Just think of is as if you had called her June and everyone kept saying Jane or Joan.

It's not about her name.

Her teacher will get it right. Teachers are human, she's only just met your dd but she will be very aware how important it is to pronounce it correctly. Give it time and get Alyssa to correct people who misspronounce it.

to be honest I think the teacher is a bit of a numpty! I would have thought it's fairly obvious how to pronounce Alyssa and can't quite see how she would derive Aleesha from the spelling tbh..........

As far as names go, I've never met another Alyssa but there are far more unusual names out there. Have you had a word with the teacher? Maybe your DDs name is spelled wrong on her register or something?

She's done it a couple of times and dd said shedid correct her!

How can Alyssa be an unusual name? Ok it isn't the most popular name out there, but it's certainly not in the 'Oh I haven't heard that name before' category.

The teacher should hopefully get it right soon, or as Diamonds said - she is being a numpty!

Alyssa isn't that unusual. Alyssa Milano? I know of a few girls with this name and it is on our potential names list. There are some people who always pronounce a name wrong no matter how many times you tell them. I also think it is spelt exactly as you would pronounce it.

So, just repeat, repeat correct pronunciation?

Poor girl, only 4 - don't want to start her off on a bad foot or annoy teacher before she officially starts...

speaking as a teacher I would relish having an unusual name in class instead of more connors or daniels or cains or chloes or kaceys .....
I have 3 kids with unusual names and its fab! Conversation starters and never seeing a coatpeg with their name on!

Alyssa - the pronunciation seems perfectly obvious to me. However, as a teacher I have had had times where a name has just fixed itself in my memory as something different from the child's actual name. Highly annoying for the child, mortifying for me. Don't know why - I'd know the right name, but the wrong one often popped out before I could stop it.

If it was Alicia, the teacher may be excused - but Alyssa is pretty obvious to me

I'd have a word

YANBU. Its a lovely name, that of my best female friend's DD2 in fact. And yes, teachers initially got it wrong, but Alyssa (6) is quick to correct them and now there's no problem.

I've had this issue all my life though. My name should be pronounced as it is spelled, but for some godunknown reason people still insist on pronouncing the first vowel incorrectly (think Susan being called Sosan or Heather being called Hither, iyswim).

I learned at a very early age to politely correct people. I like to think it's been a confidence-building experience!