This thread has me so curious about all of your names (if it's not obvious)! Jessica is easy enough...I thought our last name was easy enough, too...people usually don't mess it up if it's written, but if I have to say it I ALWAYS have to spell it and usually say things like "F, as in fish" (as opposed to "S", which I get a lot). It gets on my nerves. DH goes by a shortened form of his middle name, so he always gets called by his first name, which drives me batty, but he won't correct them so they keep saying it over and over again. This is why our children will have easy to pronounce names and go by their 1st!
Yes I always correct people. When I was in grade school teachers would mispronounce mine and my brother's name all the time, even though they were reminded time and time again how to pronounce it correctly. Needless to say it is a pet peeve.
I see all these moms who can do everything and I think... I should have them do something for me..
I think I would be inclined to pronounce your name correctly - the ending looks like that in "Michelle" - but with the creative spellings that have become popular over the last how many years? 30? I can sort of maybe see why people might be tempted to (unknowingly) mispronounce it. I also think Rachel is more common, at least it is to me - still I would definitely correct people, and don't think it's rude to do so.
BTW, I would pronounce "Natasha" as "Nah-TAH-sha". For the life of me I can't wrap my tongue around "Nat-ah-sha" or "Nat-ash-ah", but part of the problem is that I don't know where the emphasis is placed.
ETA - I have also NEVER heard anyone say "Nat-arsh-ah" - surely that must be a regional thing?
Um, yes. I correct people. My full name is Alexandra. I grew up when this was an uncommon name, and you would not believe how many times I was called Alexander (man's name) or Alexandria (city in Egypt). It's kind of a bigger problem with people misspelling my name in writing...especially when I became an adult and started getting bulk mail and telemarketing calls for "Mr. Alexander XXX" instead of "Ms. Alexandra XXX."
It's actually one of the reasons I go by Alex almost 100% of the time now (although I must say that this does nothing for the mistaken gender issue).
My last name gets butchered most of the time too--usually by people who think it's either pronounced like the name of an Ivy League school in New Jersey or like the most famous New Jersey-born rock star of the 1980s (there's a riddle for you!). It's actually neither.
I don't correct people. I have a very common Spanish name, but practically unheard of in English (Soledad). Plus, I go by my middle name and I always get called by my first (which is Carolina, pronounced Caroleena). When someone needs to write it down I pronounce it correctly and then I say "like Carolina, the state", so that I don't need to spell it out. I do, however, remind my midwives that I go by Sol, but they keep calling me Carolina (in English) anyway. Life is a lot easier when I'm with Indian people and I can go by my Indian name, though
The exception may prove the rule, but what proves the exception? "It is not that such things are possible", the camel thinks, smiling. "But such things are possible for me".
My name has been mispronounced as Anita and Antoinette. There are no "i"'s in my name. Even the doctor's office screws it up sometimes when they call me back in to the exam room. I usually end up asking if they meant Annette.
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Silly but thats my name.
