You keep saying this word...

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I was thinking about this story the other night and thought it would be good to share here.

My mum is a child minder so we've come across all sorts of names over the years. She was talking to a nursery teacher that she knew a few years ago and she was telling her about the new kids being registered at her nursery. She said she met one mother who was really sweet and she had brought her daughter who's name was said 'Yih-Von-Nee'. She couldn't figure it out, said she hadn't heard that name before. Then the mother filled the paper work out and it turned out the little girls name was... Yvonne XD The teacher sort of gently asked her about it and it turned out she had seen it written down, said it in her own head how she thought and apparently no one else she knew had either seen it or hadn't bothered to correct her XD

To this day I don't know what happened. I would assume she just kept called her Yih-Von-Nee because how weird would that be for the kid to have her name changed at like 2 or 3? Each to their own and all that nonsense but this is the only time I've ever heard of creative pronunciation instead of KreE8Tyve spellings XD