This is something that just doesn't bother me. I've had people ask me if I prefer my name pronounced 'Les-lie' or 'Lez-lie' and it never occurred to me that I needed to pick one pronunciation over the other
you are the opposite of my former coworker. she was a meagan. WOE BETIDE YE who said it "meg-en" instead of "may-gen." i mean, i get it, you want your name pronounced correctly, but i when i mentioned that i grew up with a meagan pronounced meg-en, she flipped her shit about how it's PEOPLE LIKE THAT who are RUINING HER NAME.
What, is Meagan 18th century french huguenot?
I knew a girl in college with a bit of a name-identity crisis (and rightly so). Her name was Muffin. And she was as crunchy as they come, rocking some massive dreads.
She was in my intro to acting class and during an exercise someone accidently called her Muffy and she flipped.her.shit. I wanted to hand her a pastry and tell her to mellow out
Is your name Jillian? If so, how do they mess it up?
Gillian, Julian, Gulian (I don't even think thats a real way to spell it, but I've seen it more than once), Jilian (one l), Julia or Julie (like the just give up and can't figure it out.)
Happens a lot. I went by Jill for a long time because I got tired of it...but I far prefer Jillian.
That is pretty annoying. I think it is a very pretty name!!
This is something that just doesn't bother me. I've had people ask me if I prefer my name pronounced 'Les-lie' or 'Lez-lie' and it never occurred to me that I needed to pick one pronunciation over the other
you are the opposite of my former coworker. she was a meagan. WOE BETIDE YE who said it "meg-en" instead of "may-gen." i mean, i get it, you want your name pronounced correctly, but i when i mentioned that i grew up with a meagan pronounced meg-en, she flipped her shit about how it's PEOPLE LIKE THAT who are RUINING HER NAME.
That's how I feel about the chicks named Corinne who pronounce it cor-INN. Bitches! Ruining it for everyone!
I've had folks misspell both my given name and nickname, but I typically shrug it off. There is one woman I work with who has known me for more than a decade and still gets it wrong. Kind of irritating.
I know how you feel. My mom named me something that's not uncommon but has many different spelling variations and the one I have is not very common at all. Now my H's last name is very similar to something else so it's constantly misspelled as well. I can't win.
Ooh, another good wrong name ancedote: My mom's name is Lois, sometimes misspelled Louis. Her freshman year in college, they changed it to Louis, thought she was a guy and assigned her to a guys' dorm.
My name is misspelled all the time, I just don't care anymore.
On an unrelated note, I hated my initials growing up because they were SLB, which the other kids pronounced as "slob" when we had a teacher who would make charts using everyone's initials. Then I married a man whose last name starts with "T". So now I guess I'm "slut".
My initials are unfortunate, too. I feel you on this one.
“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.” - Natalie Goldberg
oh em gee you would not believe the people who think Devorah should be Deborah.
FUCK OFF NON CHOSEN PEOPLE
Lol. V and B are two letters I commonly interchange when typing, but I would still be embarrassed if I did this to someone. After working in higher ed, where there are tons of interesting names with egos behind them, I try to be verrrry cautious!
Post by chickadee77 on Feb 5, 2013 16:59:30 GMT -5
On another note, what about when people pronounce their own names "incorrectly?" When I was living in KY, we met someone who introduced herself as "Gin." I'm thinking, okay, probably a nickname, she's a bartender, whatever. I proceed to call her Gin for SEVEN YEARS. We get an invite to her wedding, and her name is really Jen.
Fast forward like a month, I meet someone who introduced his fiance as Gin, so I asked if it was really Gin, or was it Jen with a Kentucky accent? He laughed - it was really Gin, short for Virginia.
I generally assume a person is an idiot is she can't spell my name correctly when it's in print in front of her. My name is "Sarah," not "Sara."
Super awesome story: We just filled out forms for the education savings account the ILs are setting up for DS. The forms came with a note saying to make sure everything is spelled correctly and that the SSN is correct. We spelled his name correctly (obviously) and sent the forms back to the financial adviser. Yesterday we received the first account statement in the mail; it's set up for "Elliot." Our son's name is spelled with two "T"s. WTF.
I made damn sure to check the kids' intials when we were naming them. I shot down a name for DS that would've resulted in FAT, even though we loved the name.
We would totally name another daughter Sarah Theresa (with the middle name after H's grandmother)...except her initials would be STD. Womp, womp.
I am also torn on Sarah, as much as H and I both love the name, because I've always said I wouldn't name my kid a name with two common spellings like mine.
Pants, my maiden name is a VERY basic, English word, that has 1 spelling and starts with a K (coughMLKcoughifyougetmydrift). I used to give people the same look when they would ask me if (for example) it was spelled with a C.
I saw a man on TV last night - I think it was on the Biggest Loser - who was identified as "Erin." That got a double-take.
Also, Kore, you reminded me that I know a girl named Kaereanne. Pronounced Kay-reen. (huh)
There was some kid on The Biggest Loser, not the actual show, but a home study thing, damnit I can't think of what it was exactly and he had the weirdest name and I can't remember exactly what it was either so this post is a giant waste of typing.
The Gin/Jen thing is just an accent thing. Like when my southern roommate asked me for a pin and I told her I don't wear them and she said, "No, a PIN, that you WRAHT wee-ith"
This season? You mean Biingo? His real name is Noah, but he goes by Bingo and spells it Biingo. Lulz.