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[patheticinvader.livejournal.com]

After my last post, I thought about how people mispronounce obvious names, and such.

What does everyone think of the name Cullen ("Kull-en")? It's my 6 year old cousin's name, and some aunts and uncles in the family, and family "friends", to this day, call him "Colin" (pronounced Cole-in) and "Collin" (Call-in). They even write his name like that!

Now, in the case of my family, the fact that Cullen's name is mis spelled and mispronounced is due to the laziness and disregard my family has towards actually learning the name.

But, as someone posted in a comment to me, their daughter's name is Rylee and people mispronounce that name, too.

What are some other names that people butcher, such as Cullen and Rylee?

Comments

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

My name is Gili--it's Hebrew--and it's always mispronounced one way or another. I can understand why people would say it as Jillie, which is what most people call me now anyway, but people say Gill-eh and Gye-lee and odd things like that. It's understandable since it's obviously not a common name, but a bit troublesome, though not horribly.

I know Malia, which is getting pretty popular in the States now, gets mispronounced a lot, and a friend of our family named her son Lachlan, which is maybe the second most common name in Australia, but NO ONE seems to be able to pronounce it. Aline and Adeline are mispronounced as well, and my friend Jasmine can't get anyone to say her name correctly (Yasmine). I understand all of those, though, they can be confusing, but my cousin Arielle is constantly being called Ariel, and I think it's pretty easy to see that it's meant to be Ar-ee-ELLE; it's why her parents spelled it that way.

I thought "Kull-en" right away when I saw Cullen.

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

Wait...if you don't pronounce it Jillie, how DO you pronounce it? I'm confused! lol

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

It's pronounced Gee-Lee with a hard G, like in the word 'gill' or 'gun'. Lee, in Hebrew, means 'Mine' or 'To Me'; Gil means 'Joy'. Jillie is my nickname; people call me Jillie more often than they do Gili, and sometimes I find myself saying, "Hey, I'm Jillie" if I'm in the States or in England. People started calling me Jill during junior high; it was meant to be a tease as they were laughing at me for sounding American. It stuck with me though and now my friends use it fondly =)

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, see, I'm way too American. I thought your real name was like Gillian or something and you just said Jillie/Jill because it was the way most people spell it, LOL.

I love your name, though - it's awesome!

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

Haha, aw! No, though, I really like that there's a story behind my name. I don't mind it if people call me Jillie or Jill or Gili, whatever they want and is comfortable for them. I like nicknames a lot so I actually like it better when people call me Jillie in a way. And I know that I have this great name with this beautiful meaning, so it's the best of both worlds--I'm glad it turned out the way it did!

Thanks!

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

I wish my name would produce some nicknames! The only one I have is Linds, which is incredibly boring.