How do you react when someone mispells or mispronounces your name?
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With a name as simple and as widely used as Ryan, it astounds me just how certain people (one of my cousins specifically) simply cannot refrain from calling me Brian constantly. Even if we've only just told him, he'll say 'Brian' in the very next sentence.
Then again, the poor guy is apparently a drug fiend so that would explain a lot.
Then again, the poor guy is apparently a drug fiend so that would explain a lot.
People mispronounce my last name all the time. It's Kohn, pronounced "kon" but people pronounce it as "kone" for some reason. I've just gotten used to it.
My last name is Migl(Meegel rhyme it with Smeagol), it's Czech but being in Texas half the fucking idiots down here pronounce it Miguel and it infuriates the piss out of me.I could take Migl as a mispronunciation because its spelled like that but not Miguel god it annoys me.
I imagine them being impaled, burned, and drown in gasoline simultaneously. I understand my name is difficult, but when I correct them, they still get it wrong sometimes even getting it worse than their first attempt. And let's not forget the many times I have to tell people the story about Genghis Khan over and over again as to why my mother named me after that guy. It makes me want to just conquer the world just to scare the crap out of everybody. GGRRRRRR. Time for my happy pill.
Well, we've always had a problem with our last name- so much so, in fact, that twice now- twice, that is, two completely separate occasions- whilst getting tombstones made, the kindly engravers decided that "distraught" as we were, we had all forgotten how to spell our surname. All of us.
And, of course, they "fixed" it. Boy, were we mad.
And, of course, they "fixed" it. Boy, were we mad.
My job means I'm on the phone quite a lot, so I'm forever getting called Colin, Karem, Carl, Carlos (or my personal favourite, last week, Karen).I usually just laugh, spell my name out for them and then add "don't worry about it, I've been called worse". If anything, it's a nice little ice-breaker.
My entire name is ridiculously easy to pronounce, but there are several common spellings of my last name, and while my last name uses the most common spelling, everyone still spells it wrong, or asks. People on the phones seem to have a hard time hearing me say my name from time to time, and I had an entire conversation on the phone with the person on the other end calling me Steve. How he got Steve from James I haven't a clue, bit I let him roll with it.
Just correct them. I have grown acustom to people not pronouncing my name right.
I don't know why, but people in America can't seem to say "Julian" right.
It's pretty fucking simple.
"Jew-lee-an"
However, people insist on saying it like this:
"Jole-Yun"
Where the hell does that even come from??
I don't know why, but people in America can't seem to say "Julian" right.
It's pretty fucking simple.
"Jew-lee-an"
However, people insist on saying it like this:
"Jole-Yun"
Where the hell does that even come from??
My last name's Dow, with an "OW!" sound, like what you make when I stab you for pronouncing it like it's uncooked bread.
Noone screws up Andrew though, which is a relief.
Noone screws up Andrew though, which is a relief.
Sometimes people write "brain" for my first name. It doesn't bother me that much, because I realize they're probably dyslexic or something.
No one ever cocks up my last name. It's pretty simple.
No one ever cocks up my last name. It's pretty simple.
My last name is spelt Mikic. Pronounced Mikich, as it is croatian. Most people say meekich or michik. It bothered me a bit when I was young, so I just pronounced it as Mikic for those who have trouble with words that are not english. I still do, since people strugle so much with the 'ch' sound. I find it to be an amusing game.
Reading some of these I'm amazed that some of these very simple names are so hard to pronounce for some people.
If you get my name wrong you have to be a fucking idiot, which is saying a lot because I know actual retards who can pronounce Jordan Campbell.
If you get my name wrong you have to be a fucking idiot, which is saying a lot because I know actual retards who can pronounce Jordan Campbell.