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HelpWe talk about the slaughter of spellings, what about pronunciations?
On a regular basis I run into someone that pronounces my name wrong. It happened just now when I ordered food and wrote my name on the order sheet. I clearly wrote JOANIE and I was called jo-ANN-ee (it happens nearly every time I go there, despite me telling them half the time it's jo-NEE). Sometimes I give the person a "Are you f***ing kidding me?" look and they say "Oh, sorry, I probably said it wrong. Is it jo-NEE?". I try to cut people a little slack, okay I do have an -AN in there but I get enough "Joanie Loves Chachi" jokes to assume that the pronunciation is common knowledge.
This is also the place that pronounced Keith, kee-ITH. When that happened, the guy named Keith and I just looked at each other as if to say "How in the world do you f*** that one up?"
Anyone else experience this? Where someone just slaughters the pronunciation of a rather common name or one that the pronunciation seems obvious?
This is also the place that pronounced Keith, kee-ITH. When that happened, the guy named Keith and I just looked at each other as if to say "How in the world do you f*** that one up?"
Anyone else experience this? Where someone just slaughters the pronunciation of a rather common name or one that the pronunciation seems obvious?
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