how would you pronounce this first name?

[kimblebee]

Brings to mind:

LeRoy----Lee Roy or Lah Roy
Andrea---Andreeah or Anh dray uh
Darrel---Dare ell or Da rail
Karen---Kay ren or Care en
Mary---May-ree or Merry or Marry

Have known a Unique, pronounced U neek qua
Kenya pronounced Key nye ah

My name is Susan, but my 8th grade homeroom teacher always called me Suss-an...

Not this again LOL

All bolded words are pronounced exactly the same.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I have a last name that people pronounce Popcock, Peacock, etc. Neither of which is correct. When people call and pronounce my name wrong, I just tell them that nobody with that name lives here. I would just continue to correct people. My doctor's last name is Daniel. She does not not say it like the boy's name - it is said Dan - yell.

It's interesting you say this because my nephew's name is Daniel, but in my husband's family (Spanish speaking), it's pronounced Dan-yell. Well even more like Don-yell. And for me that sounds so much like the feminine name Danielle. It always threw me off. Now that he's in his 20s, he just goes by Dan. I saw somebody else comment that they pronounce it the same way. Up until my nephew, I've always pronounced it Dan-yul.

To the OP, I would pronounce your name Dee-Ann. I'm hoping you'll come back and tell us how it's actually pronounced!

 

[Jaime4004]

I just read this whole thread to see if I pronounced Dee-Ann wrong No answer yet?
My name is Jaime. It's almost always pronounced correctly, but I get an occasional "Hi-may" which I think is spanish? It's almost always spelled wrong though, I never care or correct anyone on spelling.

 

[disney1990]

I would say it "R-Leen-a", too. The "in" throws me.




That IS how I pronounce the boys name - Dan-yell.



Mah-ree-ka?

I would have said Eli, too. But, I agree...I see lots of little girls running aroudn with that name, pronounced Ellie..

No, two very separate words Dan and Yell more like the girls name Danielle. Wish I could say it so you could hear the difference.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

I just read this whole thread to see if I pronounced Dee-Ann wrong No answer yet? My name is Jaime. It's almost always pronounced correctly, but I get an occasional "Hi-may" which I think is spanish? It's almost always spelled wrong though, I never care or correct anyone on spelling.

I sometimes get hi-may as well (and yes, it's Spanish) from phone calls because of my last name.

However, I do spell it differently than you. So which one of us is right, lol? I also never correct the spelling. I'm 35 and my aunt STILL spells it wrong every time.

 

[U2_rocks!]

I would say Dee-ann as well, with slightly more stress on the second syllable.

 

[Forum Jumper]

Deanne

i ask because its my name and almost everyone i encounter pronounces it wrong.
and everyone seems to have a completely different wrong way of pronouncing it.

i really got to thinking about it today cuz i went to one of my doctors and he butchers it soooo bad that i never know if he is calling me or not.
there have been times where he will come out and walk over to me and gesture to me to come instead of attempt to say my name.

My first attempt would be to pronounce your name "Dee Ann" but if you told me it was pronounced "Dean Nee", I would see that and it would stick with me and I wouldn't have a problem pronouncing it after that.

 

[Dizneefamily+4]

I'd go with Dee-Ann, but if it was incorrect and I was given the correct pronunciation, I'd remember it!

My name is Jennifer - born in the early 70s, so EVERYONE was named Jennifer. There were so many in my classes, that at school, in 2nd grade, I started going by middle name. It's Leigh. Pronounced like LEE. I can't tell you how many teachers would start out the school year with attendance by prouncing it "Lay" or even "Leslie!"

 

[DopeyDame]

Come on OP, you're killing us. How do you pronounce it!

I try to be good with names and pronunciations, but I have a friend who just drives me crazy. Her name is Kristine. Easy, right? Nope. She pronounces it Kristen. Sorry, but no. That's simply not how you spell that name. She's really nice, and I realize it's not her fault how her parents spelled her name, but at some point I think I'd be inclined to change it.

 

[EMom]

I sometimes get hi-may as well (and yes, it's Spanish) from phone calls because of my last name.

However, I do spell it differently than you. So which one of us is right, lol? I also never correct the spelling. I'm 35 and my aunt STILL spells it wrong every time.

Being from Texas, if I see Jaime, I say "HI-me." Jamie is "JAY-me." The placement of that I makes all the difference. But if I meet you and you are a JAY-me Jaime, I will oblige.

If I worked with Youry (was that it?) and Chelsea and they were pronounced Jody and Chel-SEE-uh, I might be able to make myself call the guy Jody. But Chelsea would stay Chelsea/CHEL-see, because I could not bring myself to massacre that name. Sometimes there really is ONE way to pronounce a name. If her mom knew how to spell it, she could have taken the time to look it up and find out the proper way to pronounce it. The woman does not look good insisting on a backward pronunciation of Chelsea. We're not talking AN-dre-a or An-DRE-a here. It's Chelsea. CHEL-see.

What is the story on Youry/Yuri? Even the Russians I knew pronounce it YOO-ree. No J.

 

[SC Minnie]

Being from Texas, if I see Jaime, I say "HI-me." Jamie is "JAY-me." The placement of that I makes all the difference. But if I meet you and you are a JAY-me Jaime, I will oblige.

If I worked with Youry (was that it?) and Chelsea and they were pronounced Jody and Chel-SEE-uh, I might be able to make myself call the guy Jody. But Chelsea would stay Chelsea/CHEL-see, because I could not bring myself to massacre that name. Sometimes there really is ONE way to pronounce a name. If her mom knew how to spell it, she could have taken the time to look it up and find out the proper way to pronounce it. The woman does not look good insisting on a backward pronunciation of Chelsea. We're not talking AN-dre-a or An-DRE-a here. It's Chelsea. CHEL-see.

What is the story on Youry/Yuri? Even the Russians I knew pronounce it YOO-ree. No J.

She's of Spanish descent. The 'Y' is pronounce as a 'J' and the 'R' is rolled but in such a way it sound like a 'D'. That was the expanation I got. She's really nice so I just go with it.

Chelsea-- We got used to calling her Chel SEE Ya. She worked with us for 7 years and thankfully went on to greener pastures.

 

[Minnesota!]

Not this again LOL

All bolded words are pronounced exactly the same.

Agreed. Mary, merry, and marry are all pronounced the same around here!

No, two very separate words Dan and Yell more like the girls name Danielle. Wish I could say it so you could hear the difference.

See, Daniel and Danielle are pronounced the same around here, too. At least, to my ear! Dan-yill is probably more accurate.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Being from Texas, if I see Jaime, I say "HI-me." Jamie is "JAY-me." The placement of that I makes all the difference. But if I meet you and you are a JAY-me Jaime, I will oblige. If I worked with Youry (was that it?) and Chelsea and they were pronounced Jody and Chel-SEE-uh, I might be able to make myself call the guy Jody. But Chelsea would stay Chelsea/CHEL-see, because I could not bring myself to massacre that name. Sometimes there really is ONE way to pronounce a name. If her mom knew how to spell it, she could have taken the time to look it up and find out the proper way to pronounce it. The woman does not look good insisting on a backward pronunciation of Chelsea. We're not talking AN-dre-a or An-DRE-a here. It's Chelsea. CHEL-see. What is the story on Youry/Yuri? Even the Russians I knew pronounce it YOO-ree. No J.

So you're telling me the way mine is spelt is correct!

 

[jsal318]

Agreed. Mary, merry, and marry are all pronounced the same around here! See, Daniel and Danielle are pronounced the same around here, too. At least, to my ear! Dan-yill is probably more accurate.

The Mary, Merry, Marry debate occurred in a theater class of mine in college. It is definitely a regional thing. Upstate New York pronounced them all the same, downstate (where I am from) all different. In the theater world, they should all be pronounced differently.

 

[EMom]

Agreed. Mary, merry, and marry are all pronounced the same around here!



See, Daniel and Danielle are pronounced the same around here, too. At least, to my ear! Dan-yill is probably more accurate.

Sometimes I think people actually pronounce them the same, but sometimes I think their ear simply cannot hear the difference that is coming out of their mouths.

I took a phonetics class in college and we had to transcribe people from all over the US as they spoke. The better ear you had, the better you transcribed. Some simply could not hear the difference. The nuances were beyond them.

To my ears, there is a clear difference between Daniel and Danielle. Daniel has the accent on the first syllable and Danielle has the accent on the second. DAN-yul vs. Dan-YEL

The whole Mary, merry, marry thing appears to be very regional. Growing up, we did NOT say them the same. We did say Mary and merry the same. But really, we hardly had any Marys. We didn't have one insisting on it rhyming with "marry" while the other insisted on "merry." Marry was in a class by itself. But I have been on these boards long enough to know that some will insist ALL THREE are the same and some will insist ALL THREE are different.

But Chelsea is CHEL-see.

Hello, Jamie JAY-me.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Well, most of you have my DD's name correct!

It's Muh-REE-kuh (like Maria with a K in it)

and someone guessed correctly that what she often encounters is "Merica" like the last three syllables in America (and from one Brit who canNOT get it right)

In Germany, most people assume the correct pronunciation but some ask if it is that or Muh--RYE-kuh (as someone else upthread said). I guess it is sometimes said that was in Hungary, but more notmally how she says it, and that is also how it is pronounced in The Netherlands (two places her name is common).

 

[Jaime4004]

So you're telling me the way mine is spelt is correct!

Haha, fine, you win. I blame my parents.

 

[EMom]

Haha, fine, you win. I blame my parents.

Just don't ever take a job transfer to Mexico.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Haha, fine, you win. I blame my parents.

Hahaha! This only makes me so happy because I've spent my entire life with what is usually considered the masculine spelling of the name.

 

[EMom]

Hahaha! This only makes me so happy because I've spent my entire life with what is usually considered the masculine spelling of the name.

I knew female Jamies. Really, only knew one male. Lots of guys named James, but only one male Jamie. When he moved to town, we said, "A BOY named JAMIE???" because culturally, you just did not name a boy Jamie. It was a girl name. But he was so....manly...hot....gorgeous...that soon, no one minded.

Truly, he could have been named Mary or Anne and the girls would have lined up.