Funny Story

[earendel]

Though most people call me Julie, my real first name is Julianna. Most people pronounce it Julie-ann-a, when it's supposed to be Julie-on-a. My maiden last name was always mispronounced too, so when I married Mr. SuckHard, I was used to having my name butchered.

We have a good friend whose name is Georgianna, pronounced "Jor-jee-on-na". Most people, however, make it "Jor-janna".

We vowed that our children would be given easily pronounced names, and I think we succeeded.

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

You pronounce your name "LOO-uh"???

That's how the locals pronounce the name of our fair city - LOO-uh-vul.

Well, I've been called worse, and just don't call me Frank

[PlacentiaSoccerMom]

Though most people call me Julie, my real first name is Julianna. Most people pronounce it Julie-ann-a, when it's supposed to be Julie-on-a. My maiden last name was always mispronounced too, so when I married Mr. SuckHard, I was used to having my name butchered.

Emma has it lucky, her first name doesn't get messed with that much.

Madeline is pretty straight forward, but people say Mad-e-line, though it's Mad-e-lynn. The press release for "1 vs 100" mispelled her name as Madeleine. Maddie is much easier for her to use, though sometimes people mispell it as Maddy.

Ack! More bad habits I have to break. My apologies again to Julie-on-a Sue-shard and Mad-e-lynn Sue-shard.



Now, what odd pronunciation does Jeff use?

People like to spell his name Jeffery, instead of Jeffrey.

[ladysoleil]

I say it Suffick

Do others say Suffuck?

I do too. But I'm from Jersey. We say everything weird.

[a1mamacat]

In a way, having a strange pronunciation to a last name really helps with telemarketers.

I can honestly say. ....No one here by that name!

[MarleysGh0st]

But I'm from Jersey. We say everything weird.

That's if you're from Joisey. If you're from Jersey, like I am, you're accent isn't related to that New Yawker accent across the river and folks can't tell where you're from! Someone just asked me about my accent again on Election Day.

[Bob78164]

I used to sign up for magazine subscriptions with the namer Sebastian Suchard or Lucy Suchard. When mail came to the cats, I knew that I could toss it. Lucy used to be approved for credit all of the time.

On the infrequent occasions, after I left for college, when the spirit moved me to write home, I never wanted to play favorites with the address. So I addressed all of my mail home to our dog, Pepper.

He never wrote back. I should have introduced him to Annie. But I don't think she'd been born yet. --Bob

[jsuchard]

I have problems when people get my name right.

There is a library at UCLA named after "Hugh G. Dick" [Really, there is!].

Is this a cousin of yours?

[wbtravis007]

Though most people call me Julie, my real first name is Julianna. Most people pronounce it Julie-ann-a, when it's supposed to be Julie-on-a. My maiden last name was always mispronounced too, so when I married Mr. SuckHard, I was used to having my name butchered.

We have a good friend whose name is Georgianna, pronounced "Jor-jee-on-na". Most people, however, make it "Jor-janna".

We vowed that our children would be given easily pronounced names, and I think we succeeded.

That's why I started using my middle name (Skipper). You'd be surprised how many people have troble pronouncing Woodrow.

[wbtravis007]

I have problems when people get my name right.

There is a library at UCLA named after "Hugh G. Dick" [Really, there is!].

Is this a cousin of yours?

I actually called the office of Dr. Harry Beavers, who was listed in D.C. as an OB-GYN, just to see if it was a prank. It wasn't. (This was back in '79.)

A couple of years ago I asked a friend in Austin who's also an OB-GYN if he'd ever heard of or about Dr. Beavers. He said that he hadn't, but that there was a guy who did vasectomies named Dick Cutter. (Not sure about the spelling.)

[tubadave]

I have three names (I share the last two with the creator of the Sopranos, as many of you know) and they're all nearly impossible to mispronounce by anyone who's first language is English.

So, clearly, I have little to share in this thread.

Of course, going by your middle name when you share a first name with your dad can be a bit of a hassle, so maybe I can relate a little after all.

[Rexer25]

Of course, going by your middle name when you share a first name with your dad can be a bit of a hassle, so maybe I can relate a little after all.

BT,DT,GTT-S

[VAdame]

We get misspelled a lot. Devon, DeVaugh, Devo (whip it good!), DeVan, and sometimes, Devereaux! Like Blanche from the Golden Girls.

I used to be regional treasurer for an organization. Local treasurers would send me checks for deposit. One of them, instead of making the checks payable to the organization, kept making them out to me. Except he thought I was Mary Devereaux! So every few weeks I'd get a $15 check made out to Mary Devereaux. I tried telling him how to write the checks, but he didn't seem to get it. I gave up & just endorsed them & deposited them to the group account.

Plus, he kept sending them for a solid year after I stepped down from the treasurer's position! I guess it's a good thing I'm honest, because I just signed 'em & passed 'em on to my replacement for deposit.

[Bob Juch]

We get misspelled a lot. Devon, DeVaugh, Devo (whip it good!), DeVan, and sometimes, Devereaux! Like Blanche from the Golden Girls.

I used to be regional treasurer for an organization. Local treasurers would send me checks for deposit. One of them, instead of making the checks payable to the organization, kept making them out to me. Except he thought I was Mary Devereaux! So every few weeks I'd get a $15 check made out to Mary Devereaux. I tried telling him how to write the checks, but he didn't seem to get it. I gave up & just endorsed them & deposited them to the group account.

Plus, he kept sending them for a solid year after I stepped down from the treasurer's position! I guess it's a good thing I'm honest, because I just signed 'em & passed 'em on to my replacement for deposit.

I hope that wasn't the local Mensa chapter.

[cindy.wellman]

I thought my full married name (as opposed to my maiden surname) was pretty hard to mess up, until we moved to Italy.

I either needed to change the spelling of my name to be CHINDY/Luchinda, so that people would say Cindy/Lucinda. Instead, I was called CHINDY and LUCHINDA with the way I spell it now. LOL

My daughter lost the H in her name. She became: Samanta.


The non-Italian recognized W in my last name? Most people just swapped it to a V. I guess it was because we were in a very northern part of the country.

[cindy.wellman]

We get misspelled a lot. Devon, DeVaugh, Devo (whip it good!), DeVan, and sometimes, Devereaux! Like Blanche from the Golden Girls.

I used to be regional treasurer for an organization. Local treasurers would send me checks for deposit. One of them, instead of making the checks payable to the organization, kept making them out to me. Except he thought I was Mary Devereaux! So every few weeks I'd get a $15 check made out to Mary Devereaux. I tried telling him how to write the checks, but he didn't seem to get it. I gave up & just endorsed them & deposited them to the group account.

Plus, he kept sending them for a solid year after I stepped down from the treasurer's position! I guess it's a good thing I'm honest, because I just signed 'em & passed 'em on to my replacement for deposit.

That is funny!

[silvercamaro]

I thought my full married name (as opposed to my maiden surname) was pretty hard to mess up, until we moved to Italy.

I either needed to change the spelling of my name to be CHINDY/Luchinda, so that people would say Cindy/Lucinda. Instead, I was called CHINDY and LUCHINDA with the way I spell it now. LOL

My daughter lost the H in her name. She became: Samanta.


The non-Italian recognized W in my last name? Most people just swapped it to a V. I guess it was because we were in a very northern part of the country.

Chindy und Samanta vill be known as der Vellmans from now on.

Tank you for your cooperation.

signed,
Zhoodeet

[fantine33]

I thought my full married name (as opposed to my maiden surname) was pretty hard to mess up, until we moved to Italy.

I either needed to change the spelling of my name to be CHINDY/Luchinda, so that people would say Cindy/Lucinda. Instead, I was called CHINDY and LUCHINDA with the way I spell it now. LOL

My daughter lost the H in her name. She became: Samanta.


The non-Italian recognized W in my last name? Most people just swapped it to a V. I guess it was because we were in a very northern part of the country.

The ch/c pronunciation was one of the hardest things for me to remember when I was learning italian. It still is, I have to mentally picture the words chianti and ciao to remember which is which.

Since there is no W in the italian alphabet, you should be happy they didn't call you Ellman. Which would work if there were Cockney Italians, I guess. Ha!

don't know whether they pronounce it V because you were in the northern part or because a W is called a Double V in italian. I always assumed it was the latter, but I just realized that I learned the language from a Northern Italian, so what do I know? Nothing, apparently.

[cindy.wellman]

I thought my full married name (as opposed to my maiden surname) was pretty hard to mess up, until we moved to Italy.

I either needed to change the spelling of my name to be CHINDY/Luchinda, so that people would say Cindy/Lucinda. Instead, I was called CHINDY and LUCHINDA with the way I spell it now. LOL

My daughter lost the H in her name. She became: Samanta.


The non-Italian recognized W in my last name? Most people just swapped it to a V. I guess it was because we were in a very northern part of the country.

The ch/c pronunciation was one of the hardest things for me to remember when I was learning italian. It still is, I have to mentally picture the

words chianti and ciao to remember which is which.

Since there is no W in the italian alphabet, you should be happy they didn't call you Ellman. Which would work if there were Cockney Italians, I guess. Ha!

don't know whether they pronounce it V because you were in the northern part or because a W is called a Double V in italian. I always assumed it was the latter, but I just realized that I learned the language from a Northern Italian, so what do I know? Nothing, apparently.

I love when you post, because you always make me laugh. "cockney Italians." LOL!

When I ordered a hamburger at an event in Verona, I kept saying "hamburger" The woman insisted that there was no such thing on the menu. I hadn't had this problem prior to this, but my only experiences were the few and far between happy meals for the young one from the McD's. I finally walked around the counter and pointed to the picture hamburger. She said, "OH....AHMBOOGHER" I can see how she couldn't understand my version Those two sound completely different when said like that. So, it would seem that there was a cockney Italian in Verona that day.

HA HA, I just realized that perhaps it isn't a good idea to order a hamburger from an equestrian show. Ew, but LOL