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Help[Opinions] More about the pronounciation than spelling
in reply to a message by zoopeht
I worry more about pronunciation than misspelling. I figure I'm not going to get creative with how to spell the names i choose, so at least I'll be teaching people the correct spelling for the name if they ask how its spelled.
My name is Lindsay, and people always write Lindsey, Lyndsay or whatever all the time and it doesn't really bother me.
Constantly having to correct people on pronunciation would be far more annoying I think. I have a co-worker named Arianne, which is lovely, but half the people we work with mispronounce her name repeatedly and I think she's given up on it! She says it "Air-ee-ahn", but people call her Ariana or "Ah-ree-ahn" all the time.
So yeah, I do consider ease of pronunciation when choosing names. I think if I loved a name that would get butchered or mistaken for another name all the time I might just move it to the middle name spot.
My name is Lindsay, and people always write Lindsey, Lyndsay or whatever all the time and it doesn't really bother me.
Constantly having to correct people on pronunciation would be far more annoying I think. I have a co-worker named Arianne, which is lovely, but half the people we work with mispronounce her name repeatedly and I think she's given up on it! She says it "Air-ee-ahn", but people call her Ariana or "Ah-ree-ahn" all the time.
So yeah, I do consider ease of pronunciation when choosing names. I think if I loved a name that would get butchered or mistaken for another name all the time I might just move it to the middle name spot.
This message was edited 10/22/2009, 1:34 PM
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