My sister went to London for a few years to teach, and one girls name was seriouly Shi-Thead. Remove the hyphen, and what do you think the little girl kept getting called? :lol:
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My sister went to London for a few years to teach, and one girls name was seriouly Shi-Thead. Remove the hyphen, and what do you think the little girl kept getting called? :lol:
I've heard of a Chloe that is pronounced sh-low...(kind of like Shiloh, without the hard "i" ! My friend is a nurse and had to call out her name in a waiting room, she kept saying "chloe, chloe??" and finally when she said out the childs surname, the parents stood up and said "oh, you mean us? her name is sh-low" Eeek.
My name, no matter how I pronounce it, is always repeated back to me as "Karen" which is just lazy, that's not my name! Or Therese, which I don't mind and in fact a few people think that's my real name.
I gave my son a VERY normal name. 6 letters. In the Bible (but a normal one too). Can my dad EVER say his name? Of course not. Very annoying. He can't pronounce my name either and he gave me the stupid thing!
As to Angela, the "ANGE-illa" is English and the "ANGLE-ah" is German. Think Angela Merkl. So I don't have a problem with other countries and pronunciations. Just introducing people and straight away the name is repeated back incorrectly every time. And even when they get it right, five minutes later it's wrong again!
Right, I've decided. Not only am I changing my name by deed poll (adding a middle name, nothing drastic!) I'm also going to go by my (new) middle name only when we move because I'm so sick of this. Then I'll have to point out it's with two Is... maybe I'll just use my current middle name. Or just stick with Therese/Raze. It's easier!
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!
ausgirl its like Aisling... which is pronounced Ashling... (another fave name of mine)
RH is it Cah-Ryn or different?
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 . . .
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... :rofl:
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.
Do you mean Myfanwy? I thought that was pronounced Meh-fan-wee. Well, that the way it's said on Little Britain. :lol::
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! :)
My name's Rhianon and answering the phone I get Leone (lee-own-nee)... How do you get Leone from Rhianon? I've had 2 of my bosses (totally different industries) call me Row-an-non. Also had Ree-ah-non. Oh and the countless ways that people spell Rhianon. It's crazy. My name is Rhianon... with one N.
My son is Jensen with an E. Listen to the way I pronounce it.
My married surname has 4 letters (think rent-a-car) and I have to spell it AND ppl still misprounce it.
:redface: I also had no idea how to pronouce Arimeh's son's name (Aricyn) till I heard her say it!
My best friend is Bianca pronounced Be-unka, which I think it the correct way to pronounce it anyway. She gets so angry when people pronounce it Be-Anka. I just call her Biancs lol.
On our honeymoon in Hawaii there was a little American girl whose mother called her Be-unka, so much prettier than Be-Anka.:
Wow there are some tricky ones there!! Some of the Irish Names sound sooooooo pretty but due to the difficulty pronouncing them from the spelling, I'm probably just spell them as they sounded - Still unique!!
My name is pronounced "Ah-lee-see-ah" not "A-leesh-a" as I get called by people who have only read my name... I also get "Ah-liss-ee-ah"
That Chloe sh-low one got me!! Why not just spell it as it sounds?? Or perhaps some parents got namers remorse and decided to make the name more unique by changing the pronunciation? Might just be making the childs life more difficult if you did it that way perhaps? I have a friend who spelt her daughters name "Kloey" at least you can't get that wrong??
I don't think many people enjoy hearing their name pronounced incorrectly!! I don't hate it or love it, doesn't worry me tooooo much but really, it's your name, something so personal that you just want people to get it right! Especially after you've already introduced yourself as Ah-lee-see-ah and they still call you A-leesh-a!!
Oh that's alright Laura133 ... you can be my sister's twin :ROFL: Hey, i have gotten Laura a few times :D ... Met a Laurelle once too :dance:
Nai (Naomi) ... yep know what you mean :rolleyes: ... I got Narelle in the 1980's, & Lorraine in the 1990's & then Laurel there after ... hey, i answer to any as long as it's not "Hey you Or Idiot", ... LOL ;)
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")....
So Cai if we work out how to pronounce yours do we get to call you that?
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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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. :rofl:
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'.:
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!
Do children with 'normal' names end up in family court? If not we may be onto something!:
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!