You're doing it wrong.

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I've had the flu and been on an archive binge of this site all day. I'm seeing a lot of uniquely spelled names and as someone who works in child care I've run across quite a few interesting names as well. My question is, does anyone have or know of a name that always gets said or spelled wrong even though it's an actual name.

My name given name is Laurel but I am constantly being called Laura or Lauren or if the person does know my name they mangle it's spelling horribly: Lorelle, Lorel, Lorrelle. Most recently my supervisor at work has everyone confused by actually pronouncing the name itself wrong: Lurr-elle instead of Lor-rul. It's driving me mad and even though she knows she's saying it wrong she's persistent in this incorrect pronunciation. I've even had to reintroduce myself to other staff members because they're confused about the pronunciation.

And a student who is doing a placement at the centre is apparently called Aoife, I've yet to meet her but everyone calls her Eh-Oh-Fe even though I'm pretty sure the original name is Ee-Fa (like Eva but with an F). I'm not quite sure what to do when I meet her because I spotted her daughter's name on a sign in sheet in the office and I got excited about how it was one of my favourite names Saoirse (Seer-sha to the best of my knowledge) but the girl with me was confused about why I said it like that and told me it was pronounced Sar-oh-see.

I'm not sure if she's actually pronounces her name incorrectly or if this is another case of my supervisor getting everyone confused and it being justified by being a name that's not English. Any thoughts?