No, you may NOT mispronounce my name

[Rapscallion]

Screw it. I'm gonna get my name legally changed to "Jester."

I'm intending Reginald Arbuthnot Peregrine Scallion.

RAPScallion

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

My name is Alan. And oh do I have trouble with it.

First of all, I DESPISE that f***ing Paul Simon song. No, folks, you are not creative when you sing that to me. Yes, I go by Al or Alan, but no, I don't like or ever even want to hear that song again. Ever.

Speaking, of annoying songs...

My real name is Nick. I hates it when people sing the old Nickelodeon jingle or call me Nick-at-Nite.

Starting right now, if anybody decides to sing those God-awful songs to try and remember my name, the next words they say will be muffled by their own butt.

PS-This also goes for anybody who starts singing the "Name Game" song.

[Petronella]

My first name is French, and all my life people want to call me by the English version of it. All you can do is just train yourself not to respond in any way to the wrong name... even if they're standing right in front of me, if they start their sentence with something that's not my name, I presume they are speaking to someone else and ignore it.

If they are in the midst of speaking and interject my name but it's the wrong name, I interrupt them EVERY time to say "My name is M...., not M...." Sometimes I have to do this to a person many many times before they stop.

[Bliss]

hehe as you know I'm southamerican, Venezuelan to be precise, I have three first names and my two last names (my parents are.. odd...), Also the first name I use and the only one I respond to, is of nordic origin.... and my last name is Austrian... Imagine that in a southamerican country. Nobody ever could pronounce my last name correctly at first try (some never even after 10), and sometimes when I pick up the phone at the ISP and the customer demands my name. After I tell them they stop for 10 seconds, trying to decide wether I'm joking with them or not. hehehe

The only good thing about my last name appart from being able to confuse morons, is that it's the same name as a pretty expensive tasy drink, so I usually get a bottle once in a while for xmas from a friend with money as a nice touch... hehehe.

If you don't beleive how complex my full name is, just ask Jester. He knows it and can attest to it's uncommoness

Btw, about initials, I have a good friend whose initials are BTK... hehehe, he's not as bad as the "original" but you wouldn't call him too sane either.

[Jester]

If you don't beleive how complex my full name is, just ask Jester. He knows it and can attest to it's uncommoness

I do? I can?

Damn. My damn mind is on vacation again, just like me.

Bliss, I am afraid you are going to have to privately message me said long and winding name to revive my unconscious memory.

Thanks.

[Banrion]

My last name, currently Harty, gets butchered all the time, still can't figure out why. Hopefully, my new name, Hurley, will be better, as there are several celebrities with that last name.

[Jester]

Did the wedding announcements actually read "Harty-Hurley"?

I ask, just because that amuses me if it did. Don't ask. I am weird like that.

[Banrion]

Did the wedding announcements actually read "Harty-Hurley"?

I ask, just because that amuses me if it did. Don't ask. I am weird like that.

There haven't been any official announcements yet, but I joke around w/ him that I am going to hyphenate, and I insist that our first born male child be named Hendrick.

It's also really cool that I don't have to change my signature, I am just gonna stop crossing my T and the rest stays the same. YAY!

[MadMike]

Did the wedding announcements actually read "Harty-Hurley"?

Think that's bad? My one friend recently got married, and I couldn't resist pointing out that their announcement would read "Peters-Hare."

[42_42_42]

You didn't get good grades in spelling, did you?

My first name is a word.

It's an uncommon word to use for a first name, so I won't post what it is, but it is a word that is only pronounced and spelled one way in English.

90% of the people I meet cannot spell or pronounce it correctly, even after I tell them it's just like the word. If I spell it for them, they still cannot pronounce it most of the time.

I hear the same joke all the time. My name can be used as a verb. So people will say "Oh, do you (name), (name)?" One of the ways I gauge people when I meet them is if they make a joke out of my name I treat them like the jerkwad they are. Why is it that making a joke out of someone's unusual name is the first reaction of so many people? Do they really think they are being original?

I get so tired of the first 5-10 minutes of interaction with a customer being a stupid repetitive conversation about my freakin' name that at most places where I've worked, I just give up and go by Missy. Which is a completely made-up nick-name that has nothing to do with my first, middle, or last name. I use it because wherever I have worked so far, no one has had that name, so I don't get confused with one of my co-workers.

On a side note:
My maiden name was hard for people to pronounce, too. Even though it was the same as one of the counties in the state where I grew up. My mom got tired of her students not being able to say her name, so she eventually just went by "Mrs. T". Which I think is kinda cool.

[MadMike]

90% of the people I meet cannot spell or pronounce it correctly, even after I tell them it's just like the word. If I spell it for them, they still cannot pronounce it most of the time.

One of my friends that I've known since I was 5 has the last name "Hitt." It's pronounced just like it looks, just like the common verb with only one "T." He told me he had several teachers struggle trying to pronounce it, some of them trying to give it a long "I." Which is really scary when you stop and realize that these were the people who were supposed to be educating us.

I hear the same joke all the time. My name can be used as a verb. So people will say "Oh, do you (name), (name)?"

In that situation, I think I'd say something like, "Wow, that's even funnier than the first thousand times I heard it!" But then, I'm a smartass that way.

[Sofar]

People have a tendency to mispronounce a name because they are trained to believe that unusual names have unusual pronounciations. Take me brother's name, Kerne. Very straightfoward, no? Unfortunately, when people read this name their resulting thought process goes a little something like this:

Let's see, damn, another hippie name, that can't be pronounced like kern, that's too obivious, uh, kernie?

It seems most people are yet unfamiliar with the concept of the silent E. Tell me, where in English is an E pronounced like that?

[TealJellyfish]

My name is Lexi. Seems simple right? WRONG!
I get Lesley, Lisa, Lacy, Lana, Lauren, Peter (WTF) and on one occasion Sharon?...
I actually asked my boss if i stutter after i got called sharon

[myswtghst]

And I'm a Leslie, who is commonly called Lindsey, Lexi, Lisa and various other L names.

As I've posted before, my last name is a 6-letter word. There is only one possible spelling, and I can't imagine how else you'd pronounce it. Yet people still screw it up.

[Jester]

My last name is a color. A COLOR. And people screw it up, both spelling and pronouncing.

My stepfather's last name is Smith. People screw that up, too.

It doesn't matter how easy or common the name is, people will screw it up. Why? Because people are stupid. Phenomenally so. And they don't pay attention. Those who do get your name right, and so don't get talked about in here. But those aren't the stupid ones. Those are the (rare) intelligent ones. I often shock people by getting their names right, even hard to pronounce ones. Why? Because I pay attention. A trait that is far too rare these days.