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Is your name often mispronounced?
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Is your name often mispronounced?
Either because it's a long/unconventional name, or because it is pronounced differently than it's spelled; is your name (first or last) ever mispronounced?
CeCe- …is a Chamber DEITY.
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Not mispronounced, it just confuses people.
Shale- ...is a Chamber Royal.
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My name is very Germanic and five letters long but ppl often want to make it more French adding a couple of letters.
Boyette is not my last name.
Boyette is not my last name.
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No, but sometimes they get the spelling of my last name wrong.
Tony Marino- …is a Global Moderator.
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Nah.
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Tony Marino wrote:Nah.
Not even in Brooklyn, Ant-nee?
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My maiden name was. Always.
wants2laugh- …is a Power Member.
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very german first and last name.... although it is becoming more common... those with the name all pronounce it differently. but i get called about 20 different things... and slut, whore, slave are usually some of them LOL
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Not a whole lot, but it does happen.
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Re: Is your name often mispronounced?
My last name isn't mispronounced but is often misspelled.
Nystyle709- ...is a 20G Chamber DIETY.
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Re: Is your name often mispronounced?
People will never mispronounce or misspell my last name....but they flub my first name more often than not.
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Re: Is your name often mispronounced?
First name's common enough. Last name is often Americanized, even by me. So I wouldn't say "mispronounced" as much as not pronounced in the actual Italian way. lol
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Re: Is your name often mispronounced?
It's more misspelled than anything. My family has been spelling it wrong since my birth. Which I don't get because it's really not that hard of a name. It's like misspelling Suzanne or Alice--you gotta really WANT to fuck it up if you've seen it more than once and STILL spell it wrong.
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Re: Is your name often mispronounced?
No but it's always misspelled.
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Re: Is your name often mispronounced?
FireIce918 wrote:It's more misspelled than anything. My family has been spelling it wrong since my birth. Which I don't get because it's really not that hard of a name. It's like misspelling Suzanne or Alice--you gotta really WANT to fuck it up if you've seen it more than once and STILL spell it wrong.
Your family misspells your name? Are we talking distant cousins twice removed or the ones you sat at the same dinner table with?
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Re: Is your name often mispronounced?
Oh yes! My last name is always mispronounced and misspelled. "McHugh" gets spelled all sort of different ways like McCue, McKew, McGue. . . pronouncing, it's supposed to be "Mc" sounding like "Mick", and "Hugh" like "hue".
It always gets pronounced stupidly like some of these classics I've heard (usually from telemarketers. . . )
Mack Goff
Ma Guff
Mick Goo
Mick Hug
Mack Ho
etc. . . phonics, people!!!
It always gets pronounced stupidly like some of these classics I've heard (usually from telemarketers. . . )
Mack Goff
Ma Guff
Mick Goo
Mick Hug
Mack Ho
etc. . . phonics, people!!!
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Re: Is your name often mispronounced?
Hyacinth Girl wrote:Oh yes! My last name is always mispronounced and misspelled. "McHugh" gets spelled all sort of different ways like McCue, McKew, McGue. . . pronouncing, it's supposed to be "Mc" sounding like "Mick", and "Hugh" like "hue".
It always gets pronounced stupidly like some of these classics I've heard (usually from telemarketers. . . )
Mack Goff
Ma Guff
Mick Goo
Mick Hug
Mack Ho
etc. . . phonics, people!!!
SMH. I know what you mean. One of the partners where I work retired sometime ago but we still get sales calls for him. It's sad how many ways people pronounce "O'Connor". And it's not like they're from a call center in New Delhi.
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Re: Is your name often mispronounced?
Alan Smithee wrote:
Your family misspells your name? Are we talking distant cousins twice removed or the ones you sat at the same dinner table with?
My aunts send gifts every year and EVERY YEAR my name is misspelled!
What's worse is now that we're all connected on Facebook, they may comment on a pic and STILL spell my name wrong! ::facepalm::
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Re: Is your name often mispronounced?
I feel your pain
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