How people Butcher your name
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I never understand it. In an online environment where we interact almost exclusively through text, people read my name and immediately type something completely different. I get "Acadian" a lot, or "Acakian", or any variation except for Acacian. I can understand mispronunciation if you've never heard of an acacia tree, but the spelling mistakes baffle me.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
As for IRL name, I love how people mispronounce it. My last name is "McCalla". It's pronounced exactly as it's spelled - MC-CALL-A. But I get a lot of "MC-AL-A". My favorite was when I went to a clinic in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood and the nurse pronounced my name "MC-AYE-A", as in 'pollo' or 'amarillo'.
I'm glad I'm not the only one.
As for IRL name, I love how people mispronounce it. My last name is "McCalla". It's pronounced exactly as it's spelled - MC-CALL-A. But I get a lot of "MC-AL-A". My favorite was when I went to a clinic in a predominantly Hispanic neighborhood and the nurse pronounced my name "MC-AYE-A", as in 'pollo' or 'amarillo'.
Ok for the sake of my friend, the name Kaila can also be pronounced "Kye-la".
Also just because I have two last names doesn't mean you have to strain yourself to try and pronounce BOTH of them. Just try your best to say the first and let me say here.
PS: Armando= "R-mon-dough" NOT "Arm-man-doo" It's spanish: the vowels are different!
Also just because I have two last names doesn't mean you have to strain yourself to try and pronounce BOTH of them. Just try your best to say the first and let me say here.
PS: Armando= "R-mon-dough" NOT "Arm-man-doo" It's spanish: the vowels are different!
I really wish your name was Kurt A. Kurtheimer. That would be awesome.Spy Killer said:
I'll say..."Caught-High-mer"?
Matt Reed is pretty hard to get wrong, but people always assume that its spelled "Read" for some reason.
You seriously made me want to golee1287 said:
Anyways...
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I've had a few people mess up my Internet name. It's because it's a zero as the second "letter"(yes, it isn't a letter). It started since you can't write Danish letter oe(ø) in Counter-Strike. I then did what most others did, and wrote an 0.
Soedenone is the actual name and pronunciation. Danes have no trouble with it. "Soede" means "Sweet" also. My former Internet alias was just "none", so it's "sweetnone", in essence.
You try pronouncing that, though, as a non-Dane. Soede.
I've been called Redin Gold and Red In Gold, even though my name is Redingold, just one word. If you want to write it as two, it's Red Ingold.
As for my real life name, you'd have thought Jacob was easy to pronounce, but there was this kid I knew who called me Jacum (pronounced Jay-cum). My cousins also used to be constantly berated by my granny because they said it jay-cob instead of jay-cub, even though I really didn't care.
I do hate it when people call me Jake.
As for my real life name, you'd have thought Jacob was easy to pronounce, but there was this kid I knew who called me Jacum (pronounced Jay-cum). My cousins also used to be constantly berated by my granny because they said it jay-cob instead of jay-cub, even though I really didn't care.
I do hate it when people call me Jake.
My first name is Chris. That's easy. But my last name...
Naccache (Nah-ka-chee)
No one I know could spell or pronounce this on their first try.
Naccache (Nah-ka-chee)
No one I know could spell or pronounce this on their first try.
Furburt, i would never mess up your name you sexy beast. No homo by the way. People always get my last name "shearer" wrong and say sheer instead.Furburt said:
