Oh, my mom had a really funny name-fuck-up-story. She was trying to book a hotel room. The hotel person was either hard of hearing or dumb as shit. She repeated her name several times, including that her last name is the same as a Shakespeare character. When she went to check in, they couldn't find her reservation. After a long argument, they finally discovered that her reservation was set up under "Wrongfirstname Shakespeare."
My guess for the one that ends with -y and spells it -ee, must be Amy (Aimee?). The -ie and -y names could be a ton of different things like Stephanie, Melanie or Bethany...what else could they be...?
I get called Stephanie a lot but my name is actually Stacie.
I thought maybe we had the same name after your commen, but nope!
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.
I came across a student once (I sub) who got all bitchy with me when I pronounced her name (Cassandra) Cas-an-druh instead of Cas-on-druh. ::insert eye roll here::
I work in an urban schoo district with a lot of you-neek spellings and often have students comment about how I'm the first teacher to ever pronounce their name right. I've gotten pretty good at decoding names lol.