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    Default Say my name correctly, tool!

    What stupid and/or ridiculous ways have you had your name pronounced and how have you reacted? Mine takes the cake.

    Real name: Rowell
    Correct way to pronounce it: Ro-well
    Stupid ways people have pronounced it: Rou-wull; Row-wull; Roll; Ra-wool; Roswell(How in the blazing Hell do you get Roswell out of Rowell?! I've actually had a teacher write my name as Roswell...). This takes the cake: Roland. This one doesn't even deserve a comment. :rolleyes2

    I usually swallow my pride, sigh in my head, and don't correct anyone when they say my name incorrectly.
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    My last name seems to be really hard to say.

    It's Kolek, pronounced "Coh-leck". All the time I hear "Kah-lack" or "Coh-lack" or "Coh-lick". It's annoying.
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    I get called Jeremy alot. I have no clue why. In what way does the 'iah' in Jeremiah form the 'y' sound? For Pete's sake.

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    Yuejiao.

    I repeated it to Roogle over the phone like seven times and he STILL didn't even dare to attempt it. xD


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    Name: Craig

    Ways it's been pronounced: Crag, Creg, Greg, Graig.

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    name: carmelita
    pronunciation: car-ma-lee-ta
    ways pronounced: carameleeta, carmaletta, carmella *how in the crimson hell does carmella come from carmelita?*, caramella *which is just bs*, even teachers get my name wrong which is also bs
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jojo
    Yuejiao
    Yoo-jow? Is that the way it's pronounced? And what nationality?

    Jelli, how do you pronounce your name? And Yazoo, I would love my teachers if they called me Caramella.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SomethingBig
    Yoo-jow? Is that the way it's pronounced? And what nationality?

    Jelli, how do you pronounce your name? And Yazoo, I would love my teachers if they called me Caramella.
    Chinese. XD And no. People usually get jiao right, but no one can pronounce yue. i don't even know how to spell it out to pronounce in English. o_0

    Edit: Ok. You-eh. Except really quickly so it's one syllable. And jiao is jiow. In a high monotone tone.


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    Jacobson is my last name. Its really annoying when people spell it jacobsEn. Or when they pronounce it like weird and say my name jah-COB-sun. its JA-cob-son. Good gosh people!
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    Quote Originally Posted by SomethingBig
    Yoo-jow? Is that the way it's pronounced? And what nationality?

    Jelli, how do you pronounce your name? And Yazoo, I would love my teachers if they called me Caramella.
    it's actually okay when my friends do it because they do it on purpose, but it's the wackos who say it Caramella to either be funny or because they're too stupid to know how to pronounce my name

    I'm sure you would SB
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    My name is Louise Gallagher. pronounced lou ease <---like easy Gall a ger

    I often get lou eece and I always get Gallaher, I mean there is a g GallaGher but ppl neva pronounce the G, dunno y, its usually teachers. It used to really annoy me but I dont bother too much about it anymore.

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    Name:Kristian
    correct way to pronounce:Krist-I-an
    2nd correct way to pronounce KriST-jan
    wrong ways:Krhaist-yan,Khreist-jan,Khrastian

    Doesnt anger me a lot and I dont hear the wrong ways much because only the people outside from my country pronounce it wrongly, so I dont hear it often (:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jojo
    Edit: Ok. You-eh.
    I had that first! But then I thought, "Hm... Only the Japanese pronounce every vowel..." :rolleyes2
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    First name: I go by Rob.
    Correct way: I think it's pretty obvious.
    Mispronunciation: At least one person has called me Ralph, after I've said my name to them. :\

    Last name: Tryson.
    Correct way: Try-sun
    Mispronunciations: Tyson, Tryon, Trysahn, Treason.

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    Hey hey. This is my kind of topic.

    First Name: Mäjken
    Correct Pronunciation: My-ken
    What I've Heard: Madge-ken, May-ken, Ma-jik-en, Mek-in, Madge-kan, Mayj-ken, Madge-en (my k disappeared!), Mack-en, plus many many many others.

    Don't even get me started on my last name, Gadouas... x_X


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