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HelpRe: We talk about the slaughter of spellings, what about pronunciations?
in reply to a message by Ceridwen
A friend of mine taught a girl whose name was pronounced Iv-on-ee spelled Yvonne.
A substitute teacher we had when I was in school mangled my first name and last name the first time he called the register. He said Shee-veen for Siobhan! I was mortified. I have has some pretty amusing pronunciations of Siobhan in other countries but that doesn't count. My surname is kind of unusual and I have been correcting spelling and pronunciation all my life.
My brother is called Dáire - Darragh is common now here but when he was growing up his name was rare. He got called Darren a lot and on one occasion Dake. My other brother got Fergus a lot instead of Fergal. I got called Yvonne by one teacher a lot.
It drives my husband mad when people call their daughters Aoibhin and pronounce it Aveen instead of Eve-in.
My niece is called Róise and gets called Róisín a lot. My other neice is called Rhiannon and get Rhiana or Rhiann sometimes. My mother is called Ita and get called Ida, Nita, I-ta instead of Eat-a. They are not common names though.
A bit OT but this reminds me of when we were staying in an hotel in Brighton. I booked the room and they had me down as a man and spelled my name Siobham. Then when Ciaran booked a taxi they struggled with his name and finally booked the taxi for room 101 and said that's they did all the time with problematic names!
ETA - One I remembered that really annoys me. My SIL is called Sorcha - Sur-i-kah. A mutual acquaintance always calls her Sorsha even when I say "Sur-i-ka" to her. Like "We are going to meet Sorcha." "Oh how is Sorsha?" I don't get that
And also I used to be in college with a girl called Gemma. He French teacher said it with a hard G as in Gamma. Poor Gemma used to be nearly in tears at it.
A substitute teacher we had when I was in school mangled my first name and last name the first time he called the register. He said Shee-veen for Siobhan! I was mortified. I have has some pretty amusing pronunciations of Siobhan in other countries but that doesn't count. My surname is kind of unusual and I have been correcting spelling and pronunciation all my life.
My brother is called Dáire - Darragh is common now here but when he was growing up his name was rare. He got called Darren a lot and on one occasion Dake. My other brother got Fergus a lot instead of Fergal. I got called Yvonne by one teacher a lot.
It drives my husband mad when people call their daughters Aoibhin and pronounce it Aveen instead of Eve-in.
My niece is called Róise and gets called Róisín a lot. My other neice is called Rhiannon and get Rhiana or Rhiann sometimes. My mother is called Ita and get called Ida, Nita, I-ta instead of Eat-a. They are not common names though.
A bit OT but this reminds me of when we were staying in an hotel in Brighton. I booked the room and they had me down as a man and spelled my name Siobham. Then when Ciaran booked a taxi they struggled with his name and finally booked the taxi for room 101 and said that's they did all the time with problematic names!
ETA - One I remembered that really annoys me. My SIL is called Sorcha - Sur-i-kah. A mutual acquaintance always calls her Sorsha even when I say "Sur-i-ka" to her. Like "We are going to meet Sorcha." "Oh how is Sorsha?" I don't get that
And also I used to be in college with a girl called Gemma. He French teacher said it with a hard G as in Gamma. Poor Gemma used to be nearly in tears at it.
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