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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

[pregosaurus.livejournal.com]

My name is Leigh Ayn, and people always just dismiss my Ayn and call me "Lay"... at places like pharmacies and DMVs where you wait for someone to call your name.

I think Leigh is an obvious "Lee," but I always get the "Lay"

[patheticinvader.livejournal.com]

See! Society is just plain STUPID. I read your name as "LeeAnn" while I read your comment. It's just..what came to mind. And people pronounce it Lay?

*smacks head* People are too stupid for their own good, it seems.

[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.

[solyma.livejournal.com]

my name is leah (lee-uh) and i get lee or leia (lay-uh) all the time.

[sherball.livejournal.com]

My sisters name is Carey. Most people will try to pronounce it as Kerry when they first meet her. THere are some of her grade school friends who to this day still spell it Carrie. *eye roll* Talk about lazy. My sister is 42!!!

[sarahrose.livejournal.com]

Agreed.

I have a friend named Leigh, and it's my sister's middle name... and it's just always been "lee." Duh. People are just stupid by not learning "normal, classic" names.

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Aren't Carey and Kerry pronounced the same way?

[sherball.livejournal.com]

no.. :) think carey as in cary grant.. and kerri like in berry.

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

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

[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 ;)

[ewaeva.livejournal.com]

Hmm... Maybe it's a matter of accent? I'm Canadian, and I would still pronounce those the same way! :)

[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 =)

[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]

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!

[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.

[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]

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.

[tallc00lone.livejournal.com]

My name is Holland, and a lot of people say it like the place, but perhaps because of my parents' accents, my name is pronounced Hoe-lind. Hollie, my nickname, is pronounced the same as Holly, but Holland is different than you'd think.
*shrug*

[p-inkjeans.livejournal.com]

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

[cassandrakfreaq.livejournal.com]

yeah in america at least cary grant and kerri are pronounced the exact same way. I am pretty sure cary grant pronounced his own name like kerrie lol!

[adamant-turtle.livejournal.com]

no.. :) think carey as in cary grant.. and kerri like in berry.

I'm jumping on the "sound the same to me" bandwagon :-0

[missamerican.livejournal.com]

This is crazy. There isn't really a WRONG way to pronounce names.
In the case of someone in specific, like your cousin- sure- because people have their own way of pronouncing their name. But don't expect people to know how to pronounce any name.
Names are pronounced differently based on different things: culture, dialect, accent, etc. My name is Jamie. "J-ME" not "HI-MAE".. and while most people around here assume by seeing my name it's "J-ME".. I shouldn't get mad when someone from a Spanish-speaking country says "HI-MAE."
Instead of whining about how someone pronounces your Cousins name wrong.. why don't you tell them how to pronounce it instead. If they keep pronouncing it different than your cousin does, complain all you want- about them being stubborn and stupid.

[lovablemess.livejournal.com]

Amen. Do you hate it? I especially hate getting Lee. No offense to people named that, but it gets on my nerves.

[solyma.livejournal.com]

hmm.. i'm with the others, i pronounce them the same way! :) where are you from?