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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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[becomingun.livejournal.com]

My name is Georgia. NO ONE CAN SAY IT RIGHT WHAT THE HELL. People call me Georgina, Georgianna, Georgette, Georgeea, and all sorts of other random crap that I cannot imagine how they got from Georgia. I'm Canadian and all, but it's a US state AND a country, it's not that uncommon!

[qtshorty1625.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of when I was younger and read the Nancy Drew series, and I always thought George's real name was Georgeea. When I got older, it finally dawned on me that it said Georgia. At that age, I think that part of me just assumed that the state and name would be pronounced different; though at the same time, it didn't even dawn on me that it was spelled like the state (or country). At the same time, I was also like 12.