I once had a student named Dominca. It was supposedly pronounced Duh-mawn-i-ca. She would get very irritated that people “didn’t know how to read” when they pronounced it doh-minca
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A girl named Abcde
tbf, it supposed to ve pronounced Absedee. which isn't ugly phonetically, but being named Abcde???
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A girl in highschool whose name was Nazanine went by Nazi (Nah zee). Like, why? Your name was beautiful.
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I knew a guy so ghetto he got his first name as his Xbox Live Gamertag.
For once I’m on the cop’s side.
I used to know an Alyssa whose name was pronounced like Alicia. Her parents went let's give her one name but spell it just like another name.
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Jewelee (Julie) because they wanted Jewel in there I guess
It sounds like theres two people named Ellie. One of whom is Jewish.
And they decided to distinguish her by calling her Jew Ellie.
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I knew a guy once whose last name was "EA." Two capital letters. He pronounced it "Yeah." His first name was Rodrake.
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I haven’t met any one with a terribly spelt name but one girl I worked with was named America. Weird as hell if you ask me
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Not a baby name but I worked with a devops engineer who had dyslexia so all of our IaC variable names had misspellings in them. We just lived with it because it would have been expensive to teardown the resources and reprovision them with the correct spellings.
I've encountered a lot of the reverse of this. Danielle pronounced "Dah Nell". Brittany pronounced "Brih Tanny". Jonathan pronounced "Joe Nathan".
Jonathan pronounced "Joe Nathan"
I would call that fucker Jonah-T-Han purely out of spite.
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"Heulyn" pronounced Hay-lynn.
That's spelt 100% correctly in Welsh.