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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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[nothingtolose19.livejournal.com]

My name is Julianne, which .. I always thought it would be easy to say, you know? Juli + anne. But I get Julian ALLLLLL the time. Other versions are Jillian, Juliannie (wtf, physics teacher in high school? wtf?) or sometimes just Julie, but I'm never sure on that last one if they're trying to call me by a nickname or just see the first part :p Julian pisses me off the most. It's a boy's name, and there's CLEARLY an ANNE in my name, wtf teachers! (It's mostly teachers, lol).

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

I have a friend named Julianne, and we had an instructor who kept calling her Julianna.