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HelpRe: We talk about the slaughter of spellings, what about pronunciations?
in reply to a message by Ceridwen
That's crazy that people can't pronounce Joanie and Keith. One would think that those pronunciations would be common knowledge. Wow.
People always get my first name wrong. I'll tell them my name, Helen, and so many people ask me if it's Ellen. When I met my cousin's teacher a couple years ago, she kept calling me Ellen over and over again in the short conversation I had with her. I just didn't have the heart to correct her.
We have the same problem with my sister's name. Her name is Evelyn, but we call her Evie for short. It's pronounced EH-vee. Almost everyone says it EE-vee. She was called out at an awards ceremony once, and they pronounced her name as EE-vee. Then they corrected it. To ee-VY (long i). She's getting really tired of it, especially since her Algebra teacher, who she's had this whole semester, keeps calling her EE-vee, no matter how many times she is corrected.
People always get my first name wrong. I'll tell them my name, Helen, and so many people ask me if it's Ellen. When I met my cousin's teacher a couple years ago, she kept calling me Ellen over and over again in the short conversation I had with her. I just didn't have the heart to correct her.
We have the same problem with my sister's name. Her name is Evelyn, but we call her Evie for short. It's pronounced EH-vee. Almost everyone says it EE-vee. She was called out at an awards ceremony once, and they pronounced her name as EE-vee. Then they corrected it. To ee-VY (long i). She's getting really tired of it, especially since her Algebra teacher, who she's had this whole semester, keeps calling her EE-vee, no matter how many times she is corrected.
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