Kiesza

[sliveredlight.livejournal.com]

A really great musical artist whose name I've been pronouncing 'kee-sha' to this point... usually I'm pretty good at sussing out pronunciations of names from different ethnic origins.

Apparently, according to a radio DJ and to a photographer friend who took some album pictures for her, it's pronounced 'kai-zah'.

huh. I don't know how I feel about this.

Any other oddball pronunciations you've encountered?

naming after a fictional character or famous person?

[marigoldchurch.livejournal.com]

My birth name is that of an Enid Blyton character... which is what happens when you tell a five year old that she can name her new baby sister.

Has something like this happened to anyone here or anyone you know of?