Before I heard it being said I kept pronouncing the surname “Mangione” as “Man-jee-own” rather than “man-jo-nee” and I’m still ashamed about it lol I’m sorry
All English town names, by spite and ignorance but mostly spite.
Oh, I am not pronounching “Glouchestershire” correctly? SPELL it correctly then!
Is that the one pronounced “Wooster”?
No, Worcestershire is pronounced woostershire
And Gloucestershire sounds like Glousteshire.
There was a YouTube video I watch ages ago and it explained it pretty well.
The differences depends on who settled the town. Roman, Saxon, or Viking
I have American friends who couldn’t pronounce it. it was always some variant of “Glow-kester-sheer” but tbh I can’t blame them, the spelling doesn’t do the pronunciation justice 😂
I think I’m supposed to say “gl” and then the vocal equivalent of “asdfasdfasdf”
In his comments on the Jeeves & Wooster series Stephen Fry talked a bit about English family names. Among others, he said Mainwaring is pronounced “Mannering”, and Cholmondeley is “Chumley”.
Glaw-stuh-shur, correct?
It sounds plausible!
Pronounced Siobhan as SheOhBahn for years.
Sorry SheVohn!
omg I know the feeling. had someone in college named this and I pronounced it the same way until she corrected me and I was so sorry 😭 an apology to Siobhans everywhere!
I used to have a work friend named Siobhan and when I’d come home I’d mention her to my partner. Sometimes I would text him about her. He fully thought these were two different people for like a year.
Same here. One of my favorite bit-part actors is Siobhan Fallon, who played the wife of “Egger” in Men in Black. She absolutely stole the few scenes she was in. I didn’t know I was mispronouncing her name for years.
For me it’s, Saoirse
I have to look it up every time I see it.
I’m not convinced there is a correct pronunciation for “Kirsten.”
Are you combining it in your head with Kristen or Kierstin?
Gonna use this thread as inspiration to piss off people, thank you for your contributions.
Also Gyro is pronounced j-eye-roe.
I thought it was yee-row.
Any Chinese name beginning with X. Took me awhile to figure out Nuyen as well.
Isn’t X just like a muted “sh”?
Apparently, any Indian names until I can see how they are spelled.
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Just mentioned this in another thread - Kraken. I say it phonetically - "krayken - but for some reason the world says “cracken”.
Two common names in Scotland are Aileen and Eileen but damned if I don’t say the wrong one every time.
Hasan - I feel like different people have different pronunciations of it and I can’t keep track of which is for who.
I’ll answer for the 99% of people in my life: Hiram
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Internal monologue:
Fuck. Jeremy? Germy? Jehrehmy? Jerremy?
Yo! J-dawg how’s it hanging man?
Gillian like Gil in Gilbert and the Gill of a fish not Jill like, well, I honestly still don’t know why it’s spelled Gillian but pronounced Jillian.
I always pronounced Tolkens name as Token, apparently nobody else made that mistake.
