(no subject)

[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

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

Kari - I know two people with names spelled the same way, one pronounces it Car-ee and the other Care-ee.

I'm lucky...you can't misprounce Lindsay very easily ;)

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

Think again! My roomates on the YC were Julia and Lindsay. Julia is pretty safe, but people actually mispronounced Lindsay's name all the time--they pronounced it lind-SAY, as in the word, say, and when she explained that it's pronounced LINDZ-ee they asked her why it isn't spelled Lindsey! RUDE! Lindsay is the original spelling!

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

Really?! Wow. I get misspellings on my name because it's ay and most people expect it to be ey, but I've never had someone mispronounce it. Well, except stupid people in 1st grade who wanted to make fun of me.

ay is the better spelling ;)

[dancing-crazy.livejournal.com]

I definitely concur. Lindsay just looks better than Lindsey to me. And now people are spelling it Lindzee and Linzi. Criminy.

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, when I was thirteen I "changed" my name to Lindzy. And when I was fourteen I "changed" it to Tallulah because I thought it looked cool.

[tesslouise.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha, when I was thirteen I "changed" my name to Lindzy. And when I was fourteen I "changed" it to Tallulah because I thought it looked cool.

That cracked me up! :)