Mispronouncing names

[brunovervoort]

My name in Flemish accent: /'bryno vər'vo:rt/
One time at a German comp: /'bʀuno 'fe:fot/ more or less

 

[Boneless]

I extend my deepest condolences to every person with a Polish last name that never gets pronounced right. Two of my friends' last names are Koperczak and Przytulski. The first is pronounced Koe-per-zack, and the second has a 99.9% mispronouncing likelihood if you haven't heard it before. Not only are the P and R silent, but the Z doesn't make a traditional Z sound. It's pronounced Shi-toll-skee, but Pruh-toll-skee is what people say when they see it. Speaking of Eastern European names, while it wasn't mispronounced, a kid in my elementary school a while back had the unfortunate last name of Trotsky.

 

[Tycubing]

My first name is extremely easy to pronounce(unless you are 3), Tyler. My last name, though, is where 93% of people butcher my name. It is Specht, which translates into woodpecker in German. At first reading, it looks like Spe- ch - t, but it is pronounced Spe- kt.

 

[Tony Fisher]

You might think that mine would be pretty easy but often people wrongly assume I am Anthony without even asking. In addition my name card at the Dutch Cube Day is wrong 90% of the time. Instead of Tony there is Toni or Anthony (again) and instead of Fisher is often Fischer. The funniest one though was someone on the twisty puzzle forum who thought I was Fissure.

 

[Matt11111]

You might think that mine would be pretty easy but often people wrongly assume I am Anthony without even asking. In addition my name card at the Dutch Cube Day is wrong 90% of the time. Instead of Tony there is Toni or Anthony (again) and instead of Fisher is often Fischer. The funniest one though was someone on the twisty puzzle forum who thought I was Fissure.

You know, this makes me wonder how we ended up with multiple spellings and variations for just about any name in existence.

 

[DGCubes]

You might think that mine would be pretty easy but often people wrongly assume I am Anthony without even asking. In addition my name card at the Dutch Cube Day is wrong 90% of the time. Instead of Tony there is Toni or Anthony (again) and instead of Fisher is often Fischer. The funniest one though was someone on the twisty puzzle forum who thought I was Fissure.

What, but don't people know who you are by name anyway? That's pretty funny though. I have another two to add to this thread (not my name but my friends'): Eva Kato (the "e" in Eva is pronounced like a hard "a," not a hard "e," and the "a" in Kato is a soft "a" sound) was mispronounced Evan Kayto. And they accidentally wrote down Allison Yu instead of Allison Li for her card for 3x3 round 2. I still don't understand that one.

 

[Matt11111]

What, but don't people know who you are by name anyway? That's pretty funny though. I have another two to add to this thread (not my name but my friends'): Eva Kato (the "e" in Eva is pronounced like a hard "a," not a hard "e," and the "a" in Kato is a soft "a" sound) was mispronounced Evan Kayto. And they accidentally wrote down Allison Yu instead of Allison Li for her card for 3x3 round 2. I still don't understand that one.

Oh yeah, I always thought the E in Eva was a long E rather than a long A, until you said, "Eva beat Derpy!" at Manhasset Fall.

 

[Tycubing]

Well, welcome to the 21st century everyone...

 

[YouCubing]

My name (Noah Joiner) has been managed to be worked into "Noah Joner". Same goes for my dad. :/ I tend to be better at pronouncing names than everyone else for some reason. But I still don't know how to say Chandramohan.

 

[guysensei1]

I have a chinese name. However you can think to mispronounce it, it's been done.

 

[shadowslice e]

I have a chinese name. However you can think to mispronounce it, it's been done.

Oh god whenever someone sees my full name they're just like wat (but I'm mostly ok cause English first and last name- though sometimes people in Malaysia mispronounce that not usually though and that's only when I go back)

 

[YouCubing]

I have a chinese name. However you can think to mispronounce it, it's been done.

I honestly don't know how you mispronounce Wong Chong Wen :/

 

[AlexMaass]

I honestly don't know how you mispronounce Wong Chong Wen :/

I guess they pronounced it "wrong"

 

[tx789]

My first name is always pronounced wrong by those unfamiliar with it. It's always the middle syllable.

 

[Matt11111]

My first name is always pronounced wrong by those unfamiliar with it. It's always the middle syllable.

*clicks WCA profile* Uhhhh...

 

[precompsubwr]

Why this thread died for 10 years? (obligatory bumping)

I thought my name was very simple, but some people mispronounced it before as "ELL-ee-us DIE-az." It's really not that hard.