How people Butcher your name

[The Shrubbery Demander]

Seen, instead of Sean. Honestly.

 

[Rednog]

Seen, instead of Sean. Honestly.

I honestly find this one excusable for most people. Hell show that to most people who are foreigners and they will pronounce it seen because it makes the most sense. Who would possibly fathom that it is pronounced Shaun? Hell growing up in the states I didn't meet a Sean until I was in my 2nd year of highschool and even then I was confused when he first told me his name was Sean.

 

[Thedutchjelle]

I'm called Jelle. English people pronounce my first name as Jelly , when it should be pronounced more like yell-uh

I'm not named after a puddingbrand ffs T_T

 

[SpaceGhostPoncherello]

In real life and online, everyone calls me Jamie. My name's Jaime. In RL it's understandable, but in Steam and such it just pisses me off. People I've talked and played with for a year still get it wrong.
ITS RIGHT THERE, IN MY SCREEN NAME. YOU'VE BEEN LOOKING AT IT FOR A YEAR. AAARGH.

 

[GodofDisaster]

People can pronounce my first name Jamie just fine, but they sometimes spell the female version of it, when writing it. Which is Jaime. (Although I am aware that some males with this name spell it this way.) As for my surname and online names such as my PSN and here, there is no problem with pronouncing them and they're easy to spell as well.

 

[Embz]

My bf is called Jordan and form various members of my family hes been called Gordon, Jason, Jacob and John

 

[Kragg]

My Mages name on WoW was called Mageto, my friends called me Mage-toe , to annoy me

No Magneto? xD

that is exactly what i read the first time

 

[ottenni]

Well people have a habit of sticking an 's' at the end of my last name because then it would change it to the name of a football player. Why they do this i do not know, because we are not related.

 

[itsnotyouitsme]

The last letters of my name is "way" but some people pronounce it "well" and i have no idea why.

 

[d4rkxy13x]

Connan seems easy, and well... it is. Con-un. I've heard Cone-anne, which is fairly embarassing.
Otherwise, people spell my name Joseph with a f.
My gamername, which is 3 letters (Eyx=>pronounced in one syllable: eix) seems impossible to spell for other people.

 

[afaceforradio]

With me it's mostly the spelling. I hate it when people spell my name (Rachel) as Rachael, Racheal or *guh* Rochelle/Rachelle. RACHEL is the original spelling of the name and I hate these modernisations because people spell my name wrong! *cries*

Jackson is hard to fuck up, although so SO tired of the MJ jokes and the 'sorry Miss Jackson' jokes it's untrue.

My gamertag is Little Rae Jay, which I've noticed people have trouble pronouncing the Rae (pronounced Ray). But that's it really.

 

[The Ambrosian]

My usernames are quite simple so no problems here.
There was this girl in my class called Almira and the teacher read "A lama" from the register.

 

[Syntax Error]

Be it my real name (Reuel) or my nickname (Huey) people butcher it one way or another when I introduce myself. I've been called Roel so many times I've lost count. I've also been called Louie so much, I wanted to change my nickname to that.

Then we get to the spelling. I've been called Yui, Yuwee, Yowie and a whole lot of other grave misspellings.

 

[Xeros]

People understandably pronounce my online name "Xeros" as "Zeros", when it's actually pronounced "Zee-Rohss".

My real last name (Tresnan) is also constantly misspelled and mispronounced. I remember hearing some call me "Treasureman".

 

[Cowabungaa]

My name, Bas, is mispronounced in every other language other than Dutch. It's awful, especially in English. People call it Bass or Baz or something else entirely, but never ever correctly. Makes sense, it can only be pronounced correctly in Dutch. I wanna change it...

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Slicksyth.

Seriously, i think i win the thread for most fuck ups. Only one person has ever said it right and he was dyslexic. Its cus the I and the L look similar on xbox live.

Silkscyth.
Silkysyth
Slikslith
silkyslyth
silkslith
silkyslilth

these are all common names for me, no one can possibly pronounce it because of the retarded font MW2 uses.

 

[Volstag9]

My last name is Ketcham,and people have come up with weird pronunciations. Some are Ketchman, Ketchaium, or even Ketchup.

They have also misspelled it Ketchum.

 

[Emilox The Great]

nobody pronounces my name wrong, cause if they do an eternity of pain and suffering will come their way...

 

[ParkourMcGhee]

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