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Compared to most people on the board, I'm fairly conservative when it comes to names. I pronounce names the way they are pronounced in the U.S., so whenever I hear someone who was also born and raised in the U.S. using a pretentious and awkward pronunciation for their child, I can't help but roll my eyes. If that's the way the name is pronounced in a different country, that's fine, but if you're only trying to be kre8tyve, stop it. Your little Emma is going to be Emma, even if you pronounce it em-MAH. That's just the way it is.

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Now that I'm venting, I'll say that I actually find mispronunciations ten times more annoying than butchered spellings. Butchered spellings are horrible, but mispronunciations reek of pretentiousness.