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[bambiblake007.livejournal.com]

i have a question.
do you (or someone you kno) have a common (or slightly common) easy to pronounce name that is constantly mispronounced?

the name i go by most is my middle name. which is Katherine.
very common name, very easy to pronounce, no?
but most of my family members pronounce it Kath-Ern, rather than Kath-Er-In, especially my mom (she named me for cryin out loud lol)

i live in Tennessee so idk if this is a southern dialect thing or not, but sometimes it annoys me (most times i don't even recognize it tbh) i mean, it's been happening for 26yrs now, so i'm fairly used to it, and i guess it's not something i can't reallyl change since like 99% of my family pronounce it that way. what's funny is when i introduce myself to ppl, i pronounce it as Kath-Er-In not Kath-Ern.

the reason i asked this question is because i was in CVS the other day and this little girl was named Jessica (very easy name to pronounce you would think) but her grandmother kept pronouncing it Jess-Kuh. and i told my mom that i hated that. like, if she couldn't pronounce the name she should just call the lil girl by a nickname or something imo..of course, my mom didn't do that 0_o

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[satunian.livejournal.com]

I'm Diana and I'm constantly getting called Diane. I hate it so much - to the point now where it's supposed to be pronounced dye-an-nah but I don't care if you say dee-an-nah, just as long as you don't say dye-anne. There's a third syllable there, it's not optional!

[dreamweaver523.livejournal.com]

haha..I'm Dianne and get called Diana a lot. I don't even care anymore, but it used to bug me

[satunian.livejournal.com]

Thats so weird, people never (I wanted to say almost never, but when I think about it, yeah, everyone's done it at least once) call me Diana, even after I introduce myself and say my name. "Hi, I'm Diana!" "Nice to meet you, Diane." Um, what? Seriously, next time that happens I'm going to say "Nice to meet you, Kevin" - unless their name is actually Kevin, and then I'm saying Angela. Kinda makes me angry that they call you Diana, because where are those people when meeting me? I always get Diane at least on the first go (I wind up saying "It's Diana, just like the princess and the singer!) and then they usually still go "Diane, right?" Wrong.

[dreamweaver523.livejournal.com]

We are obviously meeting each other's people!! That's the only explanation I can come up with LOL

[bambiblake007.livejournal.com]

my aunt's name is actually spelt like Diana but we've always called her Dianne..i'm not sure why tho..it may be because my uncle calls her that, kinda like my daddy calls my mom Zori but her name is actually Zora, so everyone in the family just calls her Zori as well.

[skittlebox.livejournal.com]

I'm Joanna, but I always get called Joanne. Damn Anne names >:(

People call me Joanne at work where I'm wearing a NAME TAG with my name on it correctly and I feel like dying inside and dropping to my knees all WHYYYYYYYYYYYYY.