Mispronouncing names

[Matt11111]

Some of us have very interesting names. Uncommon names. Hard-to-pronounce names. So I decided to make this thread to see if anyone else has heard their name being mispronounced, especially at competitions. I'll start it off.

In the first round of 2x2 at Manhasset Fall, my name was called. I don't care if people pronounce my last name Pinnock or Pinnick (honestly, I'm not sure if Pinnick is wrong anyway), but at the competition, my name was pronounced Matthew Pine-oak. I had a dendrology unit in science class in sixth grade, so when I heard my name being called, I thought of that one tree near my school. Unsurprisingly, people called me a pine oak during that unit as well.

 

[TDM]

Actually, the only time I've ever heard someone pronounce my name correctly and confidently first time was at a competition - I think it was Daniel Sheppard. But, most of the time my name just gets called out as "Louis" or "TDM", both of which people can usually pronounce correctly.

 

[mjm]

My name's Milo Maher. People will usually get the first name right (occasionally, they'll say /mee-low/), but nobody's ever said my last name correctly. anyway, it's /mar/. That simple.

 

[Tyler Comfy Hat]

My name isn't at all complex, so people never mispronounce it. At least not anymore.

Back in my early school days however, the other kids used to pronounce both 'L's in my surname (Lloyd), turning it into a two-syllable word; "Luh-loyd". Because to a kid, Having two of the same letter at the begining of a word -especially if they're constonants- makes no darn sense at all. Some of my classmates even tried to insist that I was the one pronouncing it wrong by treating one of the 'L's as silent. Damn you, Welsh heritage!

At least my surname isn't spelt the tradtional way (Llwyd). That would've openened a whole new realm of problems.

 

[Cale S]

I get called Cole or Caleb a lot, and my last name has been pronounced several different ways (my family pronounces it 'shone' for some reason, and my brothers get really irritated when people pronounce it 'shoon' )

 

[Torch]

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.

 

[PJKCuber]

My name must be the most confusing.It's always spelt wrong, even in India.

 

[WACWCA]

My dad was judging once and when he called Justin Mallari he said Justin Malaria, like the disease

 

[Ordway Persyn]

I've never went to a comp but I'm going to one in January and I can guarantee that people will mispronounce my name.

Heres the pronunciation, Ord - way (basically its pronounced how its spelled) and my last name is just Pearson spelled weirdly.

 

[Matt11111]

My dad was judging once and when he called Justin Mallari he said Justin Malaria, like the disease

Ouch.

 

[MoyuFTW]

My name is TangLong and people keep calling me tang - long. It's tongue (with an a) - long

 

[Tyler Comfy Hat]

My name is TangLong and people keep calling me tang - long. It's tongue (with an a) - long

But "Tonuge" with an A would be pronounced exactly the same as "Tang", so I'm confused. Are "Tang" or "Tonuge" pronounced differently in upside down Faz land? What.

 

[NevinsCPH]

My first name was disaster as it is a very rare name for a first name (the only nevins in whole WCA person archives or the only Nevins Chan that google can find excluding the nevichan twitter)

People go with New-ins, Nay-vin, Nay-vines and many more. The most common one being people forgetting the S at the end of my name. It wasn't a big deal anyway but it just feel awkward when in comp people shout Kevin and I thought people were calling Nevin instead.

 

[MoyuFTW]

But "Tounge" with an A would be pronounced exactly the same as "Tang", so I'm confused. Are "Tang" or "Tounge" pronounced differently in upside down Faz land? What.

Okay just say tongue not tang. It's slightly a ish. The tone goes down. It's hard to explain

What's tounge?

 

[Tyler Comfy Hat]

Okay just say tongue not tang. It's slightly a ish. The tone goes down. It's hard to explain

What's tounge?

Oh okay.

And urrrrr, two decades old in a few days and I still forget how to spell "Tongue". Embarassing.

 

[Matt11111]

My first name was disaster as it is a very rare name for a first name (the only nevins in whole WCA person archives or the only Nevins Chan that google can find excluding the nevichan twitter)

People go with New-ins, Nay-vin, Nay-vines and many more. The most common one being people forgetting the S at the end of my name. It wasn't a big deal anyway but it just feel awkward when in comp people shout Kevin and I thought people were calling Nevin instead.

Maybe this is just because I live in New York and Nevins Street is a subway station, but I don't see what's so hard about pronouncing your name.

 

[NevinsCPH]

Maybe this is just because I live in New York and Nevins Street is a subway station, but I don't see what's so hard about pronouncing your name.

Nevins street is probably what helps. Also the fact that I come from asian background really doesn't help with the situation. As if I'm an asian with a super rare english name.

 

[Dene]

Ha don't I know all about mispronounced names.

 

[penguinz7]

I get called Cole or Caleb a lot, and my last name has been pronounced several different ways (my family pronounces it 'shone' for some reason, and my brothers get really irritated when people pronounce it 'shoon' )

I've never though about it before, but to be honest I probably would've pronounced it like Skoon. I guess I'm just thinking of the word schooner.

 

[Yuxuibbs]

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?"