Mispronounced Names?

[imsorry]

People always mispronounce my name. It's not hard: Judy. Somehow they always call me Julie.

My last name is Italian and ends with an "o". Everyone insists on changing it to an "i".

My maiden name was Czech - don't even get me started I don't think anyone ever got that one right.

Anyone else have this problem?

 

[momof3disneyholics]

My first name is Suzette and I cannot tell you how many times I have been called Suzanne instead.

 

[anewvance]

I just saw a thread like this on another board I read. MANY people agreed that Ian is commonly mispronounced. I have an Ian and can agree, at the doctors and other places they say EYE AN instead of E AN.

 

[jimmiej]

People constantly mispronounce DD #1's name:

It Alisa uh-leesa

They pronounce it uh-lissa

We always correct them.

 

[mickeyboat]

My first name is Denae - that's like Renee with a "D." I have been called Diane, Dena, Deney. If you can think of a name that starts with a "D," I have been called it. My name is uncommon, but not all that hard. Sometimes I think people are just being lazy.

We won't even get started about my maiden name. It is German and has 13 letters in it.

We moved around a lot while I was growing up. On the first day of school when the teacher was taking attendance, I knew when she got to my name because she would freeze up and remain silent. I would raise my hand and say "that's me!" Would it have been that hard for her to call my parents and ask how to pronounce my name so I wouldn't feel like an idiot?

Please note my daughters' names are easy to pronounce and spelled with the common spelling.

Denae

 

[NMAmy]

I have a very short last name and people constantly add an S to the end of it. I shrug it off if they do it in conversation but make a correction if its written down wrong.

 

[imsorry]

My first name is Denae - that's like Renee with a "D." I have been called Diane, Dena, Deney. If you can think of a name that starts with a "D," I have been called it. My name is uncommon, but not all that hard. Sometimes I think people are just being lazy.

We won't even get started about my maiden name. It is German and has 13 letters in it.

We moved around a lot while I was growing up. On the first day of school when the teacher was taking attendance, I knew when she got to my name because she would freeze up and remain silent. I would raise my hand and say "that's me!" Would it have been that hard for her to call my parents and ask how to pronounce my name so I wouldn't feel like an idiot?

Please note my daughters' names are easy to pronounce and spelled with the common spelling.

Denae

Talk about trauma - when I was in first grade the teacher insisted I was spelling my name wrong - my mother had to write a note! Don't they have records? School was downhill from there!!

 

[Mysteria]

Well Judy that is my sister's name too so you are safe with me getting it right. lol My first name is Sally. Not so hard right? Well I had to have a cat scan last week and the person who called me in for it walked by a couple of times looking for Shelly. I finally clued in that it might be me when nobody was getting up. It was! My last name, though I don't find it difficult, seems to be a real problem for most people.

Myst

 

[Quackmore]

People always mispronounce my name. It's not hard: Judy. Somehow they always call me Julie.

My last name is Italian and ends with an "o". Everyone insists on changing it to an "i".

My maiden name was Czech - don't even get me started I don't think anyone ever got that one right.

Anyone else have this problem?

Yes Julie, that happens to my last name all the time. I'm used to it.

 

[bigmerle1966]

People mangle my name all the time. My name is Marilyn and I have been called Melanie, Marlene, every variation you could imagine. Same with my last name.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

My last name is always mispronounced. If someone pronounced it correctly, I would fall over in shock.

As for my first name, I get called Melissa all the time. And I mean ALL THE TIME.

 

[Pugsley]

My last name is Italian and ends with an "o". Everyone insists on changing it to an "i".

Anyone else have this problem?

That's funny - my maiden name is Italian and ends in "a" and people always change it to "i". I guess they just have a preconceived notion that all Italian names end in "i".

My first name is Lisa and people like to change that to Leslie.

 

[imsorry]

Yes Julie, that happens to my last name all the time. I'm used to it.

Quacky, you mean they can't pronounce "More"?

 

[Honeibee]

People always mispronounce my name. It's not hard: Judy. Somehow they always call me Julie.

My last name is Italian and ends with an "o". Everyone insists on changing it to an "i".

My maiden name was Czech - don't even get me started I don't think anyone ever got that one right.

Anyone else have this problem?

MY name is Judy and I always get called Julie too!

 

[agotta]

People always mispronounce my name. It's not hard: Judy. Somehow they always call me Julie.

My last name is Italian and ends with an "o". Everyone insists on changing it to an "i".

My maiden name was Czech - don't even get me started I don't think anyone ever got that one right.

Anyone else have this problem?

lol me too! Everyone switches the last letter of our last name from a to i...

My maiden name was very italian and I used to get all sorts of pronounciations!

 

[kimisabella]

I have never run into anyone who has pronouced our last name correctly (with the exception of the italian cm who works in alfredo's in epcot). It is Marchese, which is pronounced Mar-kay-zee. People always pronounce it Mar-cheese, or Mar-Cheesey - we don't even bother correcting people anymore, we answer to anything .

 

[Bob Slydell]

It's usually just spelled wrong (well, not wrong, just differently). I'm Stephen, not Steven.

 

[HayGan]

My name is Lynn and many people insist on calling me Linda

 

[imsorry]

It's usually just spelled wrong (well, not wrong, just differently). I'm Stephen, not Steven.

WHAT????? I thought it was Bob!!

 

[halestrm]

First name is K.Lee. To say it, it would be KayLee. I don't expect people to get it spelled or said right. My last name is Woodmansee. That is the one that confuses me. Just break it apart.. Wood Man See. Not difficult, but no one can spell or say it.