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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

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

My [late] great grandfather mispronounced my given name all the time. I suppose that way of saying it is closer to the name it derives from, but even so 'given name' has been common for fifty years and everyone else we knew constantly pronounced it the standard way.
Am sure it's a generational thing, amongst people who were around before the name became common. One of my lectuers is fifty something says my name that way too. It weirds me out in general, but never really correct people because I quite like it (for the reminder of my great grandfather).

My rabbit Branwen gets called Bronwen a fair bit. I suppose because the latter is more common. Slightly annoying because although they sound similiar they have quite diffrent meanings [and meaning was a big factor in choosing the name], that and it's spelt phonetically.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

Does you're rabbet ever get exasperated? When she hears her name ebing burtchered all the time :-p
ps. Branwen makes me think of bran flakes!

[anapology.livejournal.com]

oh im typo queen this evening.

[sageharper.livejournal.com]

LOL probably, she's quite a princess. :)

Yeah, one of her nicknames is 'branflake'.