Mispronouncing names

[Matt11111]

Doesn't Chen sound like it looks?

 

[qqwref]

A lot of people seem to have trouble with my last name... but it's mostly older people like my parents might talk to. Young people (such as cubers) get it right most of the time. (It's got-leeb.)

Multiple times at every single competition unless the runners were always people that I knew.
It ranges from almost right to "how do you even get that pronunciation from this spelling?"

I'll be honest, I would have absolutely no clue how to pronounce the second half of Yuxuan.

my last name has been pronounced several different ways (my family pronounces it 'shone' for some reason[...])

That reminds me of Dutch pronunciation - "oo" is an o like in "shone", but "oe" is the sound that we would write as "oo". (It does seem to be the Dutch word for "clean", so there you go.)

Literally 70% of the people I know, cubing or not, have trouble with my last name. It's pronounced gauze-low, not go-slow, gus-low, or Glasgow.

Oh, it's not gozz-low?

 

[Hssandwich]

Some kid called me Harry Say-vij. I suppose savage is supposed to be pronounced Sa-vij instead of Sa-vage, but have they never heard the word savage before?

 

[WACWCA]

Sometimes people just add letters to my last name, they will say like Callander or Callahan. I dont know why they say that when its obviously just Callan

 

[Mikel]

Thankfully I've never pronounced a name wrong before. I'm a blessing to cubers everywhere.

 

[hamfaceman]

Nobody knows how my last name is pronounced. Usually people pronounce it as Mock Town, which I'm almost used to now. People sometimes get it so bad that I don't even realize that they're calling my name. At one competition, my first name was pronounced as HAM-ish (as in the meat) like a billion times.

 

[Ranzha]

Nobody knows how my last name is pronounced. Usually people pronounce it as Mock Town, which I'm almost used to now. People sometimes get it so bad that I don't even realize that they're calling my name. At one competition, my first name was pronounced as HAM-ish (as in the meat) like a billion times.

People sometimes think my last name is your first name.

 

[hamfaceman]

People sometimes think my last name is your first name.

I suppose it does look slightly similar.

 

[DJ4Y]

Some kid called me Harry Say-vij. I suppose savage is supposed to be pronounced Sa-vij instead of Sa-vage, but have they never heard the word savage before?

Eek, that would be me, it was meant to be a joke buut I saw that you were annoyed and took it literally. Sorry [emoji14]

 

[DJ4Y]

Eek, that would be me, it was meant to be a joke buut I saw that you were annoyed and took it literally. Sorry [emoji14]

To add on this, I was the guy who asked if I could call you Say-vij not someone else who actually thought your name was Sayvij

 

[Hssandwich]

To add on this, I was the guy who asked if I could call you Say-vij not someone else who actually thought your name was Sayvij

Nah, it wasn't you. I can't remember the name of the person who it was though. But I do remember that they had an extremely bad bowl haircut

 

[DJ4Y]

Nah, it wasn't you. I can't remember the name of the person who it was though. But I do remember that they had an extremely bad bowl haircut [emoji14]

Oh shame, yay, not me [emoji14]

Also, I wonder if anyone will ever pronounce my first name wrong, that would be quite something xD

 

[Torch]

Oh, it's not gozz-low?

Maybe it's just my southern-ness speaking, but I would pronounce gauze and gozz the same way.

 

[MattMcConaha]

My name is pronounced exactly like Matthew McConaughey, but people like to trail off at the end instead. I don't really care, though, I don't correct anyone unless they ask me to.

 

[Boneless]

Although I've never been to a competition, I've never had my last name mispronounced in general, but it's been misspelled more times than correctly spelled. My last name is Humphrey, which is a mildly common name, but an uncommon spelling. I've gotten Humphrie, Humphries, Humphreys, Humphry, Humphery, Humpfree, Humfleet, Hugfree (seriously), Humfree, Humfries, the list goes on.

 

[henrysavich]

Although I've never been to a competition, I've never had my last name mispronounced in general, but it's been misspelled more times than correctly spelled. My last name is Humphrey, which is a mildly common name, but an uncommon spelling. I've gotten Humphrie, Humphries, Humphreys, Humphry, Humphery, Humpfree, Humfleet, Hugfree (seriously), Humfree, Humfries, the list goes on.

Firstly, nice bump

Secondly, I've never seen that name spelled any way other than Humphrey, so I wouldn't call it an uncommon spelling

 

[Boneless]

Firstly, nice bump

Secondly, I've never seen that name spelled any way other than Humphrey, so I wouldn't call it an uncommon spelling

I've always considered it a "secondary" spelling, because Humphries is the most common misspelling I get.

 

[DGCubes]

It's pretty hard to mispronounce "Daniel Goodman," but there was one competition where a few of my friends and I were all being called up by our YouTube names. To say the least, it was pretty amusing to hear someone shouting "DGCUBES" from across the room.

I feel pretty bad for my friend, Daniel Karnaukh. The last name is just pronounced car-nauk, pretty much how it's spelled, but he's been called "Karnooki" and "Karnaw." And then some people who know they can't pronounce it just go with "Daniel K."

 

[Matt11111]

It's pretty hard to mispronounce "Daniel Goodman," but there was one competition where a few of my friends and I were all being called up by our YouTube names. To say the least, it was pretty amusing to hear someone shouting "DGCUBES" from across the room.

I feel pretty bad for my friend, Daniel Karnaukh. The last name is just pronounced car-nauk, pretty much how it's spelled, but he's been called "Karnooki" and "Karnaw." And then some people who know they can't pronounce it just go with "Daniel K."

A K and an H as the last two letters of a word... not the best combination. But he definitely has the potential to become world-class, so people had better start learning how to pronounce his name.

Or we could just keep calling him Derpy Cuber.

One time in class, we were talking about our names, and one girl said her last name, Auerbach, has also been mispronounced many ways, one of them being... Archie-barchie. I don't even...

 

[asacuber]

It's pretty hard to mispronounce "Daniel Goodman," but there was one competition where a few of my friends and I were all being called up by our YouTube names. To say the least, it was pretty amusing to hear someone shouting "DGCUBES" from across the room.

I feel pretty bad for my friend, Daniel Karnaukh. The last name is just pronounced car-nauk, pretty much how it's spelled, but he's been called "Karnooki" and "Karnaw." And then some people who know they can't pronounce it just go with "Daniel K."

yes it is.