CinnamonCrab
Seasoned Greetings
Being southern I'm kind of used to it... growing up more people called me "may-gen" than "Meh-gan". Though I go by Meg now, so I hardly hear it anymore. ^^
Does it bother you when people mispronounce your name?
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Halloqueen
Senior Member
I have a very common name and no one ever mispronounces it. People do, however, misspell it occasionally and I find that wild because, again, it's very common and I've neither met anyone who spelled it the way people have spelled it nor know why anyone would spell it that way. I don't know that it necessarily bothers me so much as leaves me a bit bemused.
I intend to change my name in the future anyway though, for reasons unrelated, so it's not really a big deal.
I intend to change my name in the future anyway though, for reasons unrelated, so it's not really a big deal.
idiotdoomspiral
=__=
My nickname (the name i usually go by) is something ive never seen have difficulty in terms of mispronunciation. HOWEVE the full version i could see ppl having trouble with. My surname usually gets misspelled more than it does mispronounced
Memegaygay
Junior Member
I feel like when people mispronounce my name it’s ok but when they start doing it on purpose it starts getting a bit annoying tbh
My name rarely gets mispronounced. It's a Russian name but it's fairly easy to decipher it phonetically and I haven't had a lot of issues. But honestly even when someone does mispronounce it, I'm not bothered, there are names I'm not sure about either. As long as someone isn't being wilfully ignorant and ignoring your corrections, I don't think it's malicious or bothersome.
kusariyaro
internet clown
hmm this actually never happened to me bc in spanish names and words are read only one way idk if that explains it?, however im bothered when i say my surname out loud (idk, when registering somewhere?) and they repeat it wrong... its a very easy word 
~ Shannice ~
Sleepy goddess
Yes it’s a little annoying but, it doesn’t make me angry or anything
American people always mispronounce my username. It doesn't exactly bother me, they wouldn't know.
Nobody knows how to properly pronounce my surname. Tbh I'm not 100% sure myself. Some people do a pretty good job though. It doesn't bother me, it's kind of funny.
Nobody knows how to properly pronounce my surname. Tbh I'm not 100% sure myself. Some people do a pretty good job though. It doesn't bother me, it's kind of funny.
I used to not care, but I've grown to care a little more. Though whenever people manage to say my last name right it makes me really happy. Usually happens when I'm around people the same race as me. It's like I don't care enough to teach people how to say it, but it also makes me happy when they just know how to say it.
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We literally have the exact same experience. Nobody mispronounces Meg lol
EtchaSketch
(∩σᴥσ)⊃━☆ﾟ.*
When I was getting harassed really bad my first year of university, the girls who were being horrible to me purposefully addressed me by the wrong name. It felt so dehumanizing and humiliating, and even after I was forced to get along with them and tolerate them being friends with my best friend they never stopped. Coming to the realization that my best friend may not have been a very good friend, but that’s off topic.
So now, everytime somebody accidentally calls me that it makes me really sad even though they don’t mean it like that
So now, everytime somebody accidentally calls me that it makes me really sad even though they don’t mean it like that
Not that mispronounce it, but because my name is Jessee I get pretty tired of them singing songs to my name. Also hate getting the question "is it short for Jessica?" Which its not.
Also constantly getting my name spelled wrong
Also constantly getting my name spelled wrong
ChocoPie22
🍫Choco from Chiokera🍫
People don't usually mispronounce my first name, but they do mispronounce my last name, its a very uncommon version of it, so people tend to read it as the common version. They add an 'N' that's not there or change some of it to an 'er' sound that was not there. It does bother me and quite a bit since you could easily pronounce it properly if you just read it without imagining the other versions of it. Even my 5th-grade teacher wrote it incorrectly on my graduation certificate.
Vintage Viola
So-called Representative🌸
My first name only has four letters in it, so it isn’t hard at all. Like, I understand getting the pronunciation a little wrong. But I’ve had people wildly mispronounce my name before, and it was clear they were just being a donkey.
