You keep saying this word...

[behindgrey-eyes.livejournal.com]

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

Comments

[lil-cherub.livejournal.com]

Good News: Yvonne can grow up and use the correct pronunciation.

[aglae.livejournal.com]

I once heard of a Brian that pronounced his name à la française (Brillant). He was about 12 and corrected the radio host on the saying, all miffed she had said it "wrong".

[ma-ee-uh.livejournal.com]

When he was a teenager, my husband had a friend named Yvonne who went by Yuh-von ... and no one where he lived (midwestern U.S.) seemed to realize it was being pronounced wrong. And yes, she still goes by Yuh-von.

[dustthouart.livejournal.com]

I think this might get more common. A lot of Giannas aren't being pronounced "John-na" for example.

[cairtirnin.livejournal.com]

My uncle was married to a woman who pronounced it like that. I was an adult before I realized it was wrong.

[http://users.livejournal.com/___heyvanity/]

Oh my gosh, that's hilarious. My step mother-in-law was using that name all weekend at a get-together this weekend and KEPT pronouncing it "yuh-von" and it was killing me. Then I thought maybe she was actually pronouncing it the way the person actually pronounced it? Every time she said it I cringed, I swear.

[ma-ee-uh.livejournal.com]

I think it's probably not that uncommon in portions of the U.S. with no actual French-speaking people (which I suppose is most of the U.S.).

[behindgrey-eyes.livejournal.com]

I've heard it said Ih-Von and Ee-Von, but I think the Ih is probably just the way its said sometimes here in Scotland. Its more of an accent thing.

[speakunique.livejournal.com]

I once worked with a Deeana who pronounced it Dana. So confusing!

[wolf-shadow.livejournal.com]

Mum has had both "Why-von-ee" (Yvonne) and a "Gooey" (Guy) as kids as a Primary school teacher. The Gooey was named after "Gooey de Gisbourne" *cry*

[behindgrey-eyes.livejournal.com]

GOOEY?!

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