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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]

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