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HelpRe: We talk about the slaughter of spellings, what about pronunciations?
in reply to a message by Ceridwen
I once met a couple who'd very proudly named their first child Fiona. Very nice, except they pronounced it with the Fi rhyming with My instead of Me.
I once taught a girl whose name, on my class list, was Leizel. I decided to play dumb and called it out: LIE tsel. She giggled in a "silly, thick adult" kind of way and put me right: LEE zel. Getting really naughty, I said "Oh dear, there must be a spelling mistake in my list" ... accepted her word that no, there wasn't, gave the class a lightning lesson in German phonetics and sailed on. Mean and petty, I know, but I needed it.
And my mother never quite recovered from meeting a bright young lady in the course of her work who introduced herself as HELLoyz.For anyone who knew French, this was pain personified!
I once taught a girl whose name, on my class list, was Leizel. I decided to play dumb and called it out: LIE tsel. She giggled in a "silly, thick adult" kind of way and put me right: LEE zel. Getting really naughty, I said "Oh dear, there must be a spelling mistake in my list" ... accepted her word that no, there wasn't, gave the class a lightning lesson in German phonetics and sailed on. Mean and petty, I know, but I needed it.
And my mother never quite recovered from meeting a bright young lady in the course of her work who introduced herself as HELLoyz.For anyone who knew French, this was pain personified!
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