I hate it on the phone.. my name is Sheree and I get Therese, Cherise, Cherry, Sherry you name it.. thats one reason I called my girls easily pronounced common names..that and the fact that their surname has 4 sylables!!
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I hate it on the phone.. my name is Sheree and I get Therese, Cherise, Cherry, Sherry you name it.. thats one reason I called my girls easily pronounced common names..that and the fact that their surname has 4 sylables!!
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I hear you Shezabelle,
My name is Naomi you say it how you spell it but spelling it out its nay oh me easy right - yeah except for those so call me Niomi, or Neeomi or mary ?? I hate it when people say my name wrong its not that hardI just get people calling me Nae and its all up hill from there.
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Haha Nae - I'm Naomi too and I get Neeomi, Niomi, Leonie, Fiona etc. It's not a hard name - it's phonetic too so it's not hard. So yeah I just go by Nai as well.
I love the Sean than was pronounced Seen. There's an actor Sean Bean and DP always calls him Seen Been as he thinks his parents were cruel to name him that given his surname and the different pronunciations of the similar spellings - that would be very confusing to a child learning to read and spell!
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My brother is Sean - fairly common spelling, but he hates it cause everyone spells it Shaun. I know someone who's daughter is Aisleen.
However it is pronounced Ash leen - Irish or something, I still remember her being offended when I pronounced it wrong - I'm thinking to myself, well spell it properly then!
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ausgirl its like Aisling... which is pronounced Ashling... (another fave name of mine)
RH is it Cah-Ryn or different?
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Car-rin, pretty much. Soft Car sound at the start. (Sort of like carving, but without the v or the g.)
I often joke my auto-mad DH only went out with me because of my name. Scariest thing is, he doesn't disagree.
Well, I have one of those awesome Irish names too. Only it's not a name, it's just a Gaelic word so it's even more frustrating sometimes!
It's Ceilidh - pronounced kayleigh. And I'd go by my middle name but I hate it more and changing it's too much effort! lol
I did spell it phonetically for a while when I was in high school but decided it looked ugly (no offence to those who have Kayleigh as a name), and now it's a bit of a game to see who can say it when it's written, or who's heard it properly 'coz I often get Kylie or Hayley or Celia . . .
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I went to school with a girl called Xime...pronounced Hee-may...apparently one of her parents was mexican and the other japanese and it was mexican spelling of a japanese word? She was always so frustrated about it, teachers called her Zy-eem or Ex-mee or zimmy....lol
There's one welsh name that's pronounced Mee-van-wee but im sure the spelling is totally different.
My sisters name is Verity and she got called Variety by so many people growing up (and they weren't kidding!)
And she went to school with twin asian girls called Cam-mai and Cam-truc which I thought was funny caus it sounded like Camry and Cam truck...
Oh that's alright Laura133 ... you can be my sister's twin... Met a Laurelle once too
Nai (Naomi) ... yep know what you mean
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I could be here all day....
I'm a family law barrister - we get some doozies...
Try - Symyn, Tysyn, Chynn'nah-bloo, Daihseiy, Jayscyn, Jaxscyn, Shannylle, Klover, Jaiyhe, Jalymz
Also known as (pronounced as)...
Simon, Tyson, ChinaBlue, Daisy, Jason, Jackson, Chenille, Clover, Jay, James (yes that's a SILENT "l")....
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So Cai if we work out how to pronounce yours do we get to call you that?
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The Gaelic names get me everytime. When said they are lovely but when I look at them I get tongue-tied!
I am confused by this one - Nicola. I have always pronounced it 'Nickolah' in one mouthful (IYKWIM) but twice recently I have heard people pronounce it as 'Nicole-ah'.
My name is Julia, but I get Julie and sometimes Joy-a ?!
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I think 'Nickolah' is for a girl and 'Nicole-ah' is for a boy. Nicola Finetti the fashion designer is a guy and his name is pronounced 'Nicole-ah'.
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I found another irish name I like on tv the other day. Roisin pronounced Row-sheen. I dont know that I would use it though. I do love some of their names but Aussies seem to have no idea how to say them. Probably a hundred years ago when half the population was Irish decended you would have had no trouble...
As for the Grant (Gr-ANT vs Gr-arnt) I think that is to do with the state you are in. In SA we all say the latter but notice the eastern states say the former. NB we aren't ALL Hyacinths here lol.
My married surname is a womans first name and I find it ammusing when people who I dont know all that well try to be familiar by calling me an abbreviated name, except they use the surname not my first name!
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They are appauling!
THey remind me of the episode of Kath N Kim when they are trying to decide on a name and 'unusual' spelling for Kim's baby. There were apostrophes, umlauts (sp?) and slient letters flying all over the place.
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Do children with 'normal' names end up in family court? If not we may be onto something!
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sazza- we get the same thing! My son's name, Jensen, is a surname, and our surname is a girls name (from way back- have'nt met any lately cept for an 80-something woman when i worked in a dr surgery), and we get Jensen's name reversed. Last name first, them first name!
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