People Who Mispronounce My Name--After Years of Practice

[docellis]

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[planet planet]

This has happened all my life. I use this (hearing someone repeatedly call me the wrong name) to determine that person's worth.

I only correct people once. I let them figure out they are screwing it up on their own (if they don't get it after I correct them once).

But I judge. I judge people that can't get it....even though I won't correct someone more than once, I will answer to the wrong name but pretty much write the person off.

As someone who knows your name, I don't get how it could be mispronounced?

[StatmanCrothers]

This has happened all my life. I use this (hearing someone repeatedly call me the wrong name) to determine that person's worth.

I only correct people once. I let them figure out they are screwing it up on their own (if they don't get it after I correct them once).

But I judge. I judge people that can't get it....even though I won't correct someone more than once, I will answer to the wrong name but pretty much write the person off.

As someone who knows your name, I don't get how it could be mispronounced?

obviously someone whose been getting it wrong the whole time

seriously, its spelled smythe, but its pronounced throat-warbler-mangrove

[Hungary Jack]

This has happened all my life. I use this (hearing someone repeatedly call me the wrong name) to determine that person's worth.

I only correct people once. I let them figure out they are screwing it up on their own (if they don't get it after I correct them once).

But I judge. I judge people that can't get it....even though I won't correct someone more than once, I will answer to the wrong name but pretty much write the person off.

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I think it really reflects poorly on someone who does not take the consideration to learn the correct pronunciation of your name. And then there are the select few who insist that my name is pronounced how they would pronounce, despite the fact that I have lived 40 years with my name.

I guess it just shows that true enlightenment is knowing what you don't know.

[Cronos]

I have a last name that is mispronounced about 90% of the time. It's not that it's foreign sounding, it's not that it's difficult to spell(Though they misspell it, too), it's just an odd combination of two last names a couple hundred years ago that make it sound like something people are afraid to talk about.

It doesn't annoy me, in fact it kind of amuses me. I like having a majestic and complicated last name.

[ThatGuy]

It looks like we've got some last name elitists here.

Nobody gets my last name right on the first try, either (unless he happens to be from Germany).

[cardinalkarp]

Mine is always pronounce wrong, then when I spell it for them they say it sounds exactly how its spelled.

[Hudler]

It looks like we've got some last name elitists here.

Nobody gets my last name right on the first try, either (unless he happens to be from Germany).

Oddly enough,if my last name was still spelled in the original German it would be easy to pronounce. It was mangled 250 years ago by the English and hasn't been the same since.

[jimedmondsfan]

I have been married to my husband for 24 years...I have spent a great deal of that time pronouncing and spelling my last name for people. I am willing to do it the first time I meet them---after that, they should be able to get it, if not. Sayonara whateverthehellYOURname is! LOL

[TabascoElvis]

People always pronounce my name wrong... it's Wong. ba dum bum


Actually, I have a very easy last name that's just uncommon enough as a name to be noticeable. It's also got an excess of dual meanings. About 3x a month someone will think they're very clever and trot out some inane play on words. Trust me, after 40+ years no one's come up with anything new in the last 39+. I'll usually chuckle it off but every once in awhile I'll just let them twist. The discomfort is palpable.