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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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[doxerssoldout.livejournal.com]

my name is christine and i am forever being called christina and kristen, occasionally kirsten, christy, christa, chrissy, or any other chris-variant you can think of. i once had someone ask me why my parents left the "A" off the end of my name...maybe because christine and christina are TWO SEPARATE NAMES?!

it drives me nuts haha.

i've always said your name as kath-rin, although kath-er-in sounds normal to me as well. never heard kath-ern. i'm from the mid-atlantic though, so maybe it's a regional thing.

[bella628.livejournal.com]

i'm christina and i get christine constantly. same as you, i have to fight the urge to yell that while christine is a wonderful name, IT IS NOT MY NAME, MY NAME ENDS IN A!

[waitingonsunday.livejournal.com]

One of my close friends is named Christine, and she is called Christina soooo much. In a class we shared in middle school, the teacher called her that throughout the year. On one of the last days of school, I kind of laughingly pointed out that it was actually Christine, not Christina, and the teacher got seriously pissed at me for mentioning it. I meant it lightly enough, but seriously, how hard is this? It's not some crazy, unheard-of name. It's like not understanding how to pronounce Jennifer.