Strangest pronunciations

[Floweryfields]

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!

[Rouge]

ausgirl its like Aisling... which is pronounced Ashling... (another fave name of mine)

RH is it Cah-Ryn or different?

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

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.

[Meo]

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 . . .

[tattoo_mama]

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...

[{sarah}]

A friend of a friend's name is Regina, but the g is pronounced like in gun not the usual gee sound.

I have a customer who we thought was very posh in pronouncing her name Suzarne, but that's actually how it's spelt.

[Sequoia]

There's one welsh name that's pronounced Mee-van-wee but im sure the spelling is totally different.

Do you mean Myfanwy? I thought that was pronounced Meh-fan-wee. Well, that the way it's said on Little Britain.

[Campari]

I went to primary school with a Phoebe, who pronounced her name "fobe"... I always thought that was the normal way to say it until the TV show Friends started!