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[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

what are some names that you just find really awkward to pronounce/say?

i always have trouble with aurora and rory. there are just too many r's and it just sounds weird to me. that being said, i actually like aurora. too bad i can barely say it.

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[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

my own name...LOL.

Jena is occasionally a tongue twister, esp. when i'm talking fast as in "thank you for calling _____ this is Jena speaking, to better assist you ..."

People think my name is anything from Janice to Janet to Ena.

[freezemyazaleas.livejournal.com]

Is it pronounced like Jenna or Gina or something else?

[feelslike-2day.livejournal.com]

it's like Jena, but I can't tell you how many times I've been called Gina...my own fault. I called myself it and left out the second 'n' because i didn't want to be associated with a Jenna I knew at the time.

[sarapod.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on Aurora. But, I still gave my daughter that name because I think it's very pretty (And not something you see all. the. damn. time). :) My mom actually calls her "Rah-rah" because she has a hard time with it. *Shrug* Hahaha.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

yeah, i still like it a lot, but i'm half japanese so that might not go over too well. i think my mom, who is completely fluent in english, would still have a hard time saying it..and my japanese relatives? forget it. haha

[so-there.livejournal.com]

Aurora is hard for me to say, too. I had difficulty with my own name, Adrienne, when I was younger. I could pronounce it, I just found the r in the middle awkward.

and Anselm. which would be this baby's name (if it turns out to be a boy) except for the fact that I can't say it :/

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

how is anselm pronounced?

[lind-saay.livejournal.com]

Aurora
Siobhan (I always want to say Sy-oh-bahn, hahaha)

[sandtree.livejournal.com]

Charles.

[lilacmermaid.livejournal.com]

I agree about Aurora. I really like it, too, but I always feel like I have to say it with a different accent or something for it to sound right.

I have a lot of names that I can say fine, I just don't like how they sound when I say them. Like, with my accent, words that have an "an" sound in them don't sound very good, unless I'm really thinking about how I say them. So names like Anne, Anna, Andrew, etc...

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

I couldn't say my own name (Natasha) until I was about 5. That's why I just go by Tash/Tasha most of the time. It stuck from childhood.

Aurora isn't super hard for me to say, but I can see where it would be, especially saying it fast.

Saoirse. That is hard for me.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

at first i thought that said, "that's why i just go by trash" and i was like, "omg..poor thing." haha

[kilobites.livejournal.com]

Haha no but my best friend's little sister used to call me Trasha and call my friend Sofa (she is Sophie)

[hopeless.livejournal.com]

My daughter plays with a little girl named Saoirse, I still think it sounds wrong when I say it. Some of the other kids call her Swisha ;)

[solagirl.livejournal.com]

Sanae - my old landlady's name :0
Leah - every other girl in high school was named this and they ALL pronounced it differently
Kirsten - I have to stop myself from saying Kristen every time
Lucia - love this name, can't decide how to say the C sound
Aislin and all its variants - always comes out like Ass-lyn

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

Aurora for me too. And Laurel, feels like I'm gargling.

[how-obscure.livejournal.com]

I totally agree on both of these names. I like them both pretty well in theory, but I don't like how they end up sounding. I HATE how they feel in my mouth. Olga would be another name that feels weird to me.

[platomapus.livejournal.com]

names that end in -ton...like trenton because you dont know whether to over pronounce it [trenTON] or under pronounce it [tren-en], you know what i mean? lol. i hate it!

[camilleyun.livejournal.com]

Hard ones for me are Siobhan and Saoirse.

My own name annoys me sometimes because it's Anna pronounced like anne-nah but a lot of people like to say it on-ah which I don't like. And sometimes people think it's Hannah. For whatever reason I often get miscalled Amy. People tell me all the time I look like an Amy. At least they remember my name starts with an A!

It happens with my last name too. I say Wolf like the animal but people think it's Wills or I get Fox a lot because they can't remember which animal it is!

[blosmbee.livejournal.com]

I also have a hard time with Aurora.
And a lot of celtic/gaelic/lord of the rings inspired names that aren't pronounced like their spelled- Sibohn, Aisling, Eowyn, etc.
My step-niece's daughter is named Arawen (not sure if that's how it's spelled), and I have a hard time saying that too- not sure if it should be ar-ah-wen or just ar-wen, and the W just feels wrong to me for some reason, like it should be maybe be an R instead, but not really. The W feels like "baby-talk", but then the R doesn't really feel "right" either. I don't know...

My daughter's name is Catherine. She's 4 and still has trouble with it. Most of the time she says her name is "Tat-ta-win!"

[lindiohead.livejournal.com]

Yes! I agree with Aurora. It's really hard for me. Also, Layla.

[0o-faerie.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even read the second part of your post yet, and I already thought: 'Aurora!' In Dutch, it's really easy and it's actually kind of pretty, because the 'r's roll more...but in English it just sounds like 'roaroar' to me.

[traezer.livejournal.com]

I totally agree with the name Rory. Its impossible to say!

I also have a hard time with the name Hugh. It sounds like a sneeze or something.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

I also have a hard time with the name Hugh. It sounds like a sneeze or something.

lol

[nandy-pandy.livejournal.com]

I'm horrible with those two names, as well. I'm not so good with certain names that end in R, like Artur or Piotr. If there was a vowel after that, then it'd be easy!

[spartan-picnic.livejournal.com]

It's a surprise for me that so many people seem to have troubles with pronouncing Aurora! In my language the pronounciation is really simple and beautiful. We pronounce the a differet and our r's and k's t's and such are a lot more subtle than in English anyway.

I have trouble proouncing Siobhan and Saoirse. I used to have troubles with Róisín, too, but now I've learned to pronounce it properly. I can't think of anything else right now. I mean, I have trouble with any English name at first since it's not my first language but most of them are not that hard to pronounce.

[ifancylust.livejournal.com]

how is roisin pronounced?