Your name - does it bug you when people cant bother to say it right???

My name is not unique in my country. So, people do call it properly. But ever since I have been living in the US, people have a lot of difficulty pronouncing it. Sometimes when they ask me my name to write in a record, I just spell it out to them and after I finish, the usual question is "Is that your first name? wow.. It's so big". I normally accept what people try to call me as(as far as it is not monkey, donkey or you a$s etc ), better still I suggest a smaller version of my name. I suggest you ask them to call you a way which is small and won't be a problem for anybody to say.

I can understand how you feel. My dad has an english family name, my mom has a french name, they gave me both of their last names, and gave a more french first name, though it can be pronounced in both languages. However, in the past, many of my teachers have had difficulty saying one or more of my names. I can say that it's somewhat annoying. I can certainly relate to your feelings and such.

YUP! I know that feeling. My name is Leah, pronounced Lee-ah. People call me Lee, they call me Layah, and 98% of the time no one spells it right. I've had: Leigha Lea Lia Leaha Leighah the list goes on! I've had two different last names in my life (the name I was born with, and then I took my mother's Danish maiden name as an adult). The first surname I had was pretty common, but spelled differently, and I always got the more common spelling. My Danish name? It baffles a lot of people. Also, my Danish name is just long enough that a lot of people screw up the pronounciation. LOL AARRGGHH!!!

Yeah it really does for me also..my name is Bala subramanian and many people from other states and other countrymen stammer to say my name and they say my name in their own way which does not even resemble my name or call me shortly as Bala,which is somewhat ok and i think even you would stammer at spelling my name at first and then i think you could manage,but people over here even though they could manage spelling my name dont even bother that and spell my name differently..Happy mylotting....

hi Cassaundra, ( i hope i spelled it right ) you cant blame new acquaintances when at first they mispelled or mispronounced your name because to be honest its not common aside to the fact that it was spelled as not the usual Casandra :( with regards to your discussion i dont bother if they mispronounced my name for as long as i know that they are the one calling me. but on legal documents or correspondence i want my name to be spelled correctly. may i ask why your mom gave that name, what is the reason behind? and why she choose to to spelled it that way?

hi Cassaundra, i've never had a problem with people saying my name wrong, they usually just can not be bothered to say it. i was named after both my grandads and my parents wanted it double-barreled first name, robert-william, which no one except them seem to use an that frustrated them. when i was in school my parents would be either ringing the teachers/head master or going to see them every week because letters where sent home adressed to the parents of "robert" not "robert-william". it never bothered me having my name shortened in fact i prefered it bit now most people who know me just call me sock, sockie or as one friend says sockette, as i only answer to robert-william from my parents an ignore everyone else who says it, most of my family call me sock too. even when i meet new people i introduce myself as sock as i feel more comfortable with it.

Always.I am afraid that you may not be able to say it right too being a foreigner who is new to our language.Any how I will go on with it.My name is Balakrishnan. Most of the time people call me Blasubrmanian.I just got tired of correcting them. Both are the names of Hindu Gods.

I am named after the Patron Saint of Scotland (who, for some unexplained reason, was a Greek!). This is not to say that I have one ounce of Celtic blood in me (more's the pity!) Antway, I do hate it when people, on learning my name, insist on shortening it to Andy without so much as a by your leave! I know many 'Andrew's who are quite happy to be called Andy but I am NOT one of them. I was rather taken with Drew for a while but it's not a very common contraction and, after all, if I prefer my full name, why shouldn't people use it? My surname is another matter. It's a good English name (though very uncommon) but, even though I pronounce it clearly, I have taken to always spelling it out as well because people will insist on hearing a 't' or a 'y' where I put a 'd'. Actually, very much the same thing must have happened to my ancestor who moved from Worcestershire to London in the 1790's. In Worcestershire the name is spelt and pronounced with an 'i' but when he moved to London (and, presumably, not being able to read or write, he had no way of knowing) the name got written on his son's birth certificate with an 'e', which is one reason why it is so uncommon!

well yes mostly all the people i ahve met in my life have a problem pronouncing my easy name.... whats so difficult in it? it is S-H-O-N-A-L-I for heavens sake not S-O-N-A-L-I..... but still people use the latter to pronounce my name after telling them repeatedly that that is not my name.... now i have finally given up let them call me what ever they want i will only respond to the people who call my name correctly.... as simple as that

My name is all the time pronounced badly here in the US. Most of the time it doesn't bother me. I'm living in another country where nobody else has my name and it is difficult to pronounce, wha do I expect? It's not their fault if they can't pronounce it right. My husband always laughs when they mispronounce my name lol Now if I had a name that was easy and people don't take the time to pronounce it it would bother me a little.

My name is only a four lettered name.. and you wouldn't believe the mis-spelling's of my name! My name is Rita but people have spelled it Ritta, Reta, Retta, and Rheta... They don't usually say it wrong, but I get called Nita a lot.. that's my sister's name! Even my parents get our names mixed up. When we were younger, when mom would get mad she would scream RENITA.... that means.. you both better get in here NOW! lol!

No. Maybe the center of my Ego is not so conscious to the misspellings OF MY NAME!! Because, we have NAMES so we could communicate more easily. So what is so special about misspellings? They are not saying: "Hey, Peter, come here!" They say Kasandra, kasawndra, kasssandrey....AND THEN YOU GET THEIR MESSAGE. That`s all what Your name is needed for. And also maybe for contracts and diplomas You are going to make in Your life. Hope not to get any misspelling on the check of 1 million dollars, thou!

Hi saundyl. I have the same problem as well. It only happens sometimes though... In the Philippines, most people know that my first name Ma. is a short for Maria and say it Maria but here in Ireland they would call me Ma as un MA. I usually end up having to explain or sometimes let it go.

my name is Sarah and people always say it right but I cant believe how many people spell it wrong I can understand it spelled sara but people will spell it sarha and shara or sahra

Hey saudyl! I like your name! And as soon as I saw the spelling I knew how to pronounce it! Why is that so difficult for people to pronounce! I think it's a nice and pretty name! I would definitely get angry if people did that to me too! My name is Leslie and there really isn't much you can do to that except pronounce it Lesslie. I pronounce is Lezlie. I don't usually bother to correct people because it would be sort of pointless since it is pronounced both ways. My friends call me Lez for short and I have no problem with that.

I can understand ur problem reyyy,,,I have seen many in my around Like you, Whatever it may be people should listen and leave if they dont know how to pronounce but some people dont do like that they ask again and agian,,to disturb Us. AnyWay I dont have that problemm Mine is short name and easy to pronounce ,, HappyMylotting:)

I have the same problem as you. No one has the same name as me here so they don't know how to pronounce it. My real name is "Marija", but people always pronounce it with an American "j" and I have to go through explaining that it's the same as "Maria" but spelled differently every single time. I think that my Math teacher this year was the only one in this country that was able to pronounce my name correctly. My nickname is Masha, and believe it or not, people manage to mispronounce that too. I can't remember the number of times that I've had to explain that I'm not "Marsha", but Masha. It's even easier than "Marsha", but people still get it wrong. o_o Over the years I've been called different names, including Marija, Marsha, Martha, Marya, Marja, and many others. Maybe I'll start keeping a list.

YEah sometime it may cause bad to u..I feel that why cant they spell it up and i think my name is that hard to spell so i sometimes think to change it and even i dont want them to call my name i asked them to call my pet name so that i can be free from hearing misspelled name so i asked them to call my pet name and i even had a fight with my friend for using unpropaer word by mispelling my name and ii hate my name thats it

It doesn't bother me. I respond to pretty much any name that starts with a J, and have even started introducing myself as Jay. My name is Justin, but I'm frequently called Jason or Josh. Some other common J-names I get called would be Jack, Jacob, and Joseph. When I worked at Target my manager thought my name was Tim, I never bothered to correct him because it was better than yet another J name. Was quite funny because my friend would always try to correct him and I'd tell him not to. Then another co-worker corrected him and he paused "You're name's not Tim?" "Nope" "...how come you never said anything?". Luckily he had a pretty good sense of humor.

hehehe...even my name is bosky..and it seems very funny and unique to me....ppl call me boskshi...boss...or boss's key...sometimes i find it alrite till the time or till mere seconds...but if ppl make it habit and start teasing me ..i fill like hoofing away those people...ya i dotn mind my bf teasing me or i dont mind my mom teasing me ...but i hate my colleagues doin that and i know they are envy of me and they are doing it purposely..hehehe..but its ok...atleast due to this unique name ppl recall me...i mlucky