Prat keeps mispronouncing my dd's name

[Tea1Sugar]

Dd2 (12 weeks) is called Emilia i.e em-ee-lee-ya. Had no problems with people's mispronunciation and have had lots of lovely comments about it. UNTIL, a mum of dd1's friend insists it's emma-lea. I've told her three flipping times and she's told me I'm wrong?!?!

She's thick. Ignore her.

The only mature thing to do is to start mispronouncing her name

I second what thatstoast said!

She's trying to claim Emily is your daughters name when it's spelt Emilia........You can't reason with someone that stupid.

Just correct her every time she does it. Hopefully it will sink in...

Accidentally doing it is annoying. Deliberately doing it and telling you you're wrong (which you're not but even if you were) is just rude.

I agree with mispronouncing her or her dc names!

I would if her name wasn't a one syllable, eg Anne (but not). I'd come across as thick as two planks! Might try her kids though!

Is it similar enough to Anne that you can pull an extra syllable out to mispronounce? Anne can so easily be mangled into Ann-ee or Ann-eh or even An-neh.

Similarly Jane could be Jah-neh or Jay-neh or Jah-nee or Jay-nee. The mangling possibilities are endless.

Mispronounce her name that will sort it out.

It's such a common name you would think people would know how to pronounce it

What? she told you you're wrong?

Does she think she's being funny, or clever? or is she really not very bright??

Arrogant twat she is. As if she knows better than you how to pronounce your own DD's name! Thick too.

People keep pronouncing DH's name wrong, but that's because it's more commonly used as a girl's name so they mis-hear it as a different name.

Ask her if she thinks Emilia Fox is wrong to use the same pronunciation as you.

Or tell her she is a) wrong, b) rude and c) needs to wind her neck in if she doesn't want to sound like a total fool!

Just tell her she's rude and whether she thinks its pronounced like that or not is completely irrelevant.

So she pronounces it EM-ull-EE-ah? Nobody says it like that. Silly moo.

I think the OP said she pronounces it Emma - Leah (so actually Emily - Emma-Leah is the yoo-niq spelling of Emily, I believe).

Ah, I didn't know if that was Leah pronounced like Lee, or with the 'uh' sound at the end

So instead of putting the stress on the second syllable em-EE-lee-ah, she is stressing the first and third? EM-eh-LEE-ah?
Weirdo!

Start calling her kid Dave. See how she likes it.

According to baby centre poll, out of 82 votes....7 would prn as Amelia, 62 as you would prn and 13 are prat pronunciations.

Emilia Clarke and Emilia fox prn it the way you like. I'm so sad I just checked them introducing themselves on you tube!

I would mispronounce her childs name. It might give her an idea of how annoying it is. It's rude of her to not pronounce it the way you do even if she does think it's the wrong way.

Yeh basically she thinks dd is Emma-lee-ya. I won't stoop to her level, she's ugly so that'll do me

I'd give her a piece of paper with the correct (your) pronunciation marked 'for future reference since you can't remember'. It doesn't matter if a parent names their child Mary and says it's pronounced 'Susan'. It's what the parents want, not what someone else may want or think is correct.

How rude! Agree with above, you could spell it Mary and pronounce it Susan, tis none of her business.

Is definitely go with mispronouncing her name What is her name? I'm sure we could com up with some manglings to make the point. Cheeky mare!!

Mispronounce her children's names. She will take the point.