Quit mispronouncing my name..grrr...

Not many people mess Amanda up, but I get so frustrated when people decide to shorten my name to "Mandy."  Unless you are a very, VERY good friend, or I'm sleeping with you, please don't shorten my name!

"Joyce" is pretty easy for most people too, but my last name gets totally butchered  by people who are unfamiliar with Spanish pronunciation and don't have a clue that "R" is rolled, "J" sounds like "H" and "LL" sounds like "Y" etc. I've gotten so used to it that it doesn't bother me anymore.  Besides, I can usually tell by the goofy way a person says it on the phone if it's someone I want to talk to or just someone looking for a political or charitable contribution or trying to sell me something.

Joyce

For some dumb reason, telemarketers or cold-callers will pronounce Paige like "Peggy" - almost sounding like "Pay-gee".  Just last night, this British woman at the tile shop called me Paygee...unless she was saying "picky".... hmmmm. 

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Just last night, this British woman at the tile shop called me Paygee...

LMAO! Wow. You'd think Paige would be an easy one (although I'd think Chelsea would be too). I guess that i in there just confuzzles people huh?

Thankfully I have a one syllable, very English, very common word for a last name... Otherwise I think I'd break some faces when people tried to say my name. Although people often can't spell it. Because god forbid we assume the common sensical way to spell it is actually correct.... Burd, Byrd, anything but Bird!

dont let it get to you! cant change people's stupidity!

i have my whole group of friends mispronouncing my name! as a result they introduce me to everyone as janETTE (kind of a butchered mix of the english and the french pronounciation). this of course includes my boyfriend! seriously, now that my boss (who was canadian and pronounced my name correctly) and my family have left town, i barely hear my name the right way anymore! *shrug* i tried to reform them, but everytime they pronounced my name the right way, it sounded like they're mocking me! haha! yup. that's what it has come to. the RIGHT pronounciation sounds mocking!

my last name on the other hand... sheesh, i dont even know how to pronounce that in english. people always ask me, i just tell them to pronounce it any freaking way they want. it'll still not be the original (german) way, so who cares...

Between being Beau- Neeta, Boo-nita , Benita, Bernita and LINDA ???  Yep been there and own the t shirt. I understand it is Spanish and I am the second gen, there are 3 of us with it for a first name and another with it for a middle but someone is alsways trying to make it into Bonney....  Like Amanda I don't sleep with you don't give me a nick name!!  Try Snodgrass for a last name, That one really Ticks me off since I married into it !  Snot grass,  Snowed grass,  and Snodgraff   sheesh  It's Scottish, geez It means "close Clipped grass " like a putting green ....  but Black people and Indians ( as in Tech Support) just can't wrap around it.

Yikes...

Bonita of Bwana

Oh my LAST name is the problem it only has one vowel and punctuation. It is D'Hondt, nice huh! Even spell check ALWAYS thinks it is wrong. Right after I got married my MIL came up to me and says "now you get to live with it too!" We pronounce it DeHunt, whether that is the "technical" pronunciation or not I am not really sure. Computers do not know what to do with the apostrophe either. What is really funny is when I call and leave messages I always do a "pregnant pause" between my first and last name. But when people call me back they ask for Andy Hunt. It never ends. Of course it helps us discriminate who are telemarketers on the phone really fast. They kill the name EVERY time. Usually they pronounce it "Don't".

Thanks Mom for spelling my name T E N A instead of Tina like everyone else.As a result I've been called "Ten a" more often than not.This is especially vexing now that there is a brand of women's incontinence pants that bears my mispronounced name!

My first name is Lauren.  Clients always either call me Lorne, Lorna or Laura.  It is a little irritating, but I just put up with it

I so hear ya, Chelsea.  My last name is not that strange it's just got a y instead of a i.  That y really messes people up & they butcher my last name.  Now DH's name is German.  It's a very simple name & people still butcher it.  One syllable & they still butcher it.

Chelsea, I hear ya.  I don't get my first name mispronounced wrong, but no one can spell it.  I don't get it.  Stephanie....shouldn't be difficult, it's very, very, very (*sigh* did I mention very? Last place I worked there was literally 6 of us w/ the same name in my group) common.  But it never fails, if someone has to write it down, 'how do you spell that?' 

Pronouncation wise?  My last name, that I got from DH (maybe I should have kept mine? :o) ), all the time.  It's Frazee....sounds just like crazy but w/ an F instead of a C (oh lucky, lucky me)  But when people first see it they panic.  It's almost humorous.  Then it is pronounced Fr-ah-zay by most, and even Fray-zher by some (there is NO R at the end!!!! why is that so hard?)

Hmm....looks like maybe I'm more bitter than I thought...  LOL

But yea, like others have said, it makes it *real* easy to figure out if I want to talk to the person on the phone :o)

My 'real' first name (Callie *is* a pseudonym I took years ago when my ex was stalking me online and it just stuck) is a name I now hate, loathe and despise. 

My mother only called me "Marie" when I was bad and then it was the entire litany of my entire name ... it got to the point by high school that every time I heard my first name my stomach rolled. 

So as soon as I went to college I took a 'pet' name that was one of the lesser 'bad' things my mother used to call me (in my house if you were nicknamed you were loved, but most of her 'pet' names were things like Crud, Snot, Itch, Idiot ... you get the picture)

But Marie - no one ever says it right, can't spell it, can't remember it -- it becomes Maria, Mary, Maureen, Martha, anything "M".  So I just ditched it.  The only place I have to deal with it is on my driver's license and my notary stamp. 

Most people seem to be able to handle the pronounciation of "Karissa."  But heaven help them when it comes time to spelling it.  Heck, I have some friends who still get it wrong occasionally.

The most common error is to spell it with a C.  When people figure out it's a K the next most common error is to put in two "r's".  Some people try to get by with one S -- so the most backwards spelling of my name would be "Carrisa."

If someone asks me my name so that they can write it on something, I *automatically* start to spell it for them as soon as I say it.  It's habit.

Tena, I hear ya'!  Mine is spelled Tina, but when people ask my first name and I say "Tina", they say, "is that it?", like it's not normal not to shorten Christina or some variation to Tina.  "Nope, Tina is my whole name."  People also ask the spelling, like how many times do you see the name spelled Teena?

I also thought those incontinence pads were pronounced "Tee na", but was relieved to hear it as "Ten ah".

Did you know a slang term for crystal meth is Tina?  The saying goes "are you a friend of Tina?"

Now my last name gets hacked.  Arnez, Barnes, Harms, Arms.  Almost, not quite.  It is Arns.  That's N as in November.

My maiden name was Likich, pronounced "Lick itch".  I got Lickit, Licorice, Lickage.  Nobody could spell it either.

It is no wonder I thought for a long time that I should just go by my middle name!