#mispronunciation

[deathmetalunicorn1]

Question for all of you!!

Do you have a word, that no matter how hard you say it in your head and practice, can never say correctly on the first try and you have to say it slowly like you're sounding it out to be able to say the correct word? Because it's really annoying that I can't say 'preliminary' without adding in extra 'n' 'm' or 'l' s!

Does anyone else have this problem? If so, what word gives you headaches?

[lady-hibiscus]

every time my white friends talk about steven he they always say the first one. my asian friend with this last name pronounces it the second. i need to know what people think.

[leesielou]

My husband made this meme after we watched bake off tonight. He speaks a fair bit of French, and we were talking about the English butchering a lot of the French pastry names. We think they do it on purpose to make the French cranky. 😅

[lachrimae-verae]

So my IRL name sounds kinda similar to a popular type of pasta. Its so similar in fact that over the years I've had many students call me by it in lieu of my name over the years because my students are young and still learning the trickier sounds.

The other day, a parent of a former student caught me at dismissal to inform me that they intruduced this type of pasta to their child who immediately dubbed it "Teacher 'Lachrimae' Pasta!" and how their whole family, siblings, aunts, and grandparents included, all thought it was so funny they are all calling the pasta by my name. I hope that far down the line they are still calling it that, soley based on the joy from a 5 year old, and even if she forgets me as she grows, that she'll still be calling the pasta after me

[jj-online]

“you become famous but people still mispronounce your name” is a special kind of nightmare, huh?

no one ever pronounces my name correctly at first

my name sounds completely different than the mispronunciation. the syllable breaks are in different places. (Joelle like Joel-lee not Jo-el)

and, for me, it’s purely a “you do not know me at all” indicator. for others, it’s more than that. that also means there’s no reason anyone would question the pronunciation either, so there isn’t even the “you should have looked it up”

i just feel…. shame, i guess

i’ve tried so many different ways of correcting people.

interrupting with just my name was rude

waiting until they finish speaking makes a scene of apologies i have to deflect

saying my name first sometimes gets missed and that hurts even more

letting strangers be wrong is usually fine

letting acquaintances be wrong usually ends with someone else correcting them and an extra large scene of apologies to deflect and is kind of embarrassing because i didn’t do it myself

it’s exhausting.

i try not to care all that much, and sometimes i really don’t. but it’s really nonmagical to never have my name announced correctly. every first day of class role call (and probably a few more) every step of every job interview process, every coffee order, every award at work. i slipped my college graduation ceremony to avoid it.

it’s so embarrassing to be recognized for something and be so blatantly unknown at the same time.

but imagine being on the red carpet for your premiere and a random photog pronounces your name wrong

[sspacegodd]

Silently mispronouncing "indict" whenever I see it.

[sialaterornever]

whenever i talk to myself bout dominion smp i keep on refering to viking as viking plot instead of pilot and honestly im not changing my wording anymore :)

[isaywordz]

I’m going on a game show just to mispronounce the host’s name. I’m thinking Jane krakowski.

[violettewolfheart]

Found out I've been pronouncing "Bruschette: wrong my whole life and quite frankly this is how I feel about it.

[randomspider]

Never got into frozen, yet I still get annoyed when people say Anna's name wrong, maybe there's some solidarity between us cause of people getting my name wrong

[artisonal]

Ok, so I've been listening to "Dear Arkansas Daughter" by Lady Lamb, and I don't know why, but EVERY TIME I see the word Arkansas it pronounces it ar-kansas and not ar-kan-saw

[mbrainspaz]

Already, a high point of my re-read (listen) to The Warrior Heir was when the reader said, "Waiyer [weir], pronounced: 'where'. The waiyeer—" Honey no.

I had to stop working just to laugh.

[saycheezecomics]

I can't believe he just said that.

[what-marsha-eats]

[thatsridicarus]

Can you believe I used to misspell & mispronounce "okey-dokey" as "onkey-donkey" as a kid wkwkwk bego banget dah gue anjir