Embarassing Admission

[adamantplatypus.livejournal.com]

It wasn't until Pearl Harbor (the movie) that I realized the name Rafe I'd been reading in romance novels was pronounced "Rayf" and not "Raf-ee".


What have you been pronouncing wrong forever? :P

Comments

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Javier in Dutch (mainly because in Dutch, it's pronounced so differently than it is pronounced in Spanish) and Tobias in English.
Here, Tobias is pronounced TOE-bee-ahs, in English (apparently) Toe-BYE-as.

[aballard23.livejournal.com]

HAVIER!

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

Isn't it with a 'kh' sound? More guttural? That's how I learned it, anyway.

[aballard23.livejournal.com]

I d'no. I pronounce it Havier. o_O;

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I think there's a difference between English speaking countries and, well, non-English speaking countries =)