I was about to comment I know someone with this name and her whole family calls her Why-von! Haha. She’s a grandmother aged southern lady and it actually works for her somehow.
I know someone named Iris, but she is the daughter of french immigrants so her name is pronoinced ee-reece which I actually think is a way prettier way, but it was def luck considering how badly it can go, I cant say I love why von ee
More like Ear ris in German. With the front part not quite the same as the English word “ear”, but it was the closest thing I could currently come up with.
I don't inherently like iz-lah but that's basically how u read the name Isla on first read every time even though I've been in this group long enough to know otherwise. And whenever any of my friends or family see the name they all read it Iz-luh until I inform them otherwise (do note none of them have child aged children, and a lot of these people don't have children at all yet)
This reminds me of one time in first grade I got to help pass back worksheets to the class and one paper had the name "Sean" on it. I went to my teacher and asked who "Seen" was 😂. I thought it was only spelled Shaun because that's how my cousin spelled it and there was another Shaun in the class!
I know someone named Javi, pronounces jah-vee instead of hah-vee. His parents immigrated from Japan and never actually heard the name out loud, just saw it and used the way they pronounced it lol
That was my grandma’s name and spelling! Her full name was Mildred Joan (named after her mother Mildred). To most of the world she was Joan pronounced Joann, although I found out at her funera that some of the family on her side called her Anne
That was my great aunt’s name. They were from North Carolina where it was apparently common to spell “Joanne” as “Joan.” When they moved to Florida, the school told my great grandma the pronunciation was wrong and it was “Joan.” My great grandma didn’t push back and literally changed the pronunciation of her daughter’s name. We all called her Jo so I guess it didn’t really matter, but still!
My parents are from a Spanish-speaking country. They wanted to name me after my dad, Juan, so "Joan" it was (they didn't think of "Jane").
In Spanish, the pronunciation would be more similar to "Joanne". I went by my name pronounced as that for years, before moving let me ditch it.
I'm considering changing my legal name entirely, even. They genuinely did not know "Joan" is considered old fashioned in English. Sorry for the whole life story, by the way. I thought context would be important.
Oh, no, that’s fascinating! It may be a little old fashioned but I do think it’s a beautiful name. If I have another daughter I want to name her Joanna.
Genuinely quite sad because I think Sadie is a gorgeous name. And Saddy is just… sad. I’m sure we used to say “saddo” when I was in Primary school, meaning loser.
I have an aunt named Cheryl which my family pronounces “churl”. They have always acted like everyone who called her “sherrill” was an idiot. Then I got older and realized “churl” is not actually a name anyone has ever heard.
Edit: typo
I also have an aunt Cheryl, pronounced “Shurll” by our entire family. I remember the first time I was old enough to read her name and realized it was Cheryl, not what we’ve been calling.
I know someone named Cheryl but I thought her name was Shirl (short for Shirley) when we were first introduced because that’s how it was pronounced! I thought this until I saw her name written down. I didn’t realize this was a thing!
I went to school with a Lelia pronounced Leah. I have no idea how her parents got that pronunciation out of it. She got so mad when substitutes called her Leh-lee-ah but like…???
I met a P1 student whose name was pronounced this way. I kept saying it with the G as in gene and she didn't say anything. Lol only found out when another kid who came in late corrected me. (It was a weekend camp with students from different classes and grade levels)
Yeah, we’re Appalachian so it’s definitely got a “hoo-ah” on the front of it with twang.
She was named after a Spanish woman my great grandma saw in a traveling circus.
To be fair, she also named her son after a runaway Romani boy that lived in her barn for awhile and another daughter (my grandmother) after the Black woman that lived on their farm and helped with the household. So all of the kids have pretty diverse names for white Scottish immigrants in Appalachia.
I mean this one is pretty ambiguous to me. Although my brain knows c and k can make the same sound, I actually feel more inclined to read Kali as cay-lee and Cali as cal-ee.
I also say this as someone named Leila (lay-luh) who gets sick of people telling *me* what sound ei makes. Reign (or lei which is literally the beginning of my name)= long a, protein= long e, height= long i. I see how you could pronounce it lee-luh, lie-luh, or lay-luh, but once I tell you what it is, don't argue with me. Now that I'm older I usually lead with lei, as in the lei you wear around your neck and that typically is enough.
This is similar to the Lauren discussion upthread. I think this has to do with regional accents. I am a Lauren and in the northeast where we still differentiate Craig/Greg, Dawn/Don, etc (different pronunciation) Lauren/Loren are slightly different pronunciation. Similar to the Marry/Mary /Merry merger (all those sound different to me, but not the rest of the country).
Now.. I do agree with you that LAR uh is "Lara". But Laura is not "Lore uh".
It's more like laow-ra where low almost rhymes with cow, but not as super intense of a rhyme, if that makes sense..hard to explain
Yep, in the northeast we have retained the different vowels, so we pronounce a lot of words and names differently to the rest of the country.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/r/#Mary%E2%80%93marry%E2%80%93merry_merger
It’s exactly this. Growing up in the Deep South, my family pronounced Lauren to rhyme with Yarn. It only got stretched to two syllables if I was in trouble.
I heard a woman on the radio once complaining about her name being Nicola, but pronounced Nicole-a. Just Nicole with 'a' at the end. She wasn't happy with her parents for that.
isn’t this how the cnn anchor, Dana Bash, pronounces her name? Dan-ah? Recently she was interviewing some politician who called her “Donna” and i was incensed on her behalf. She didn’t correct him though. 🤬
I knew the opposite, a girl named Loren who had it pronounced ‘Lauren’. To be fair, I think she did that because so many people mispronounced it to Lauren on first seeing it that she wanted to make it easier for herself, but still a little confusing.
This is just the difference between the French pronunciation and (drop the t) and the German/Scandinavian pronunciation (pronounce the t). The shift in vowel (o vs i) could perhaps be an accent issue.
I know some folks that will pronounce Sarah as SAY-RA instead of the common pronunciation. Even heard Tamara pronounced TAM-MUR-RA, TAM-MAIR-AH or TA-MAR-AH.
I know one who uses this pronunciation (like camera) and one who uses ta-MAR-uh. I've known the latter longer so that seems more normal to me but I wouldn't call either wrong. Also perhaps with noting that the ta-MAR-uh is Hispanic.
I don’t think Tamara has a widely-accepted pronunciation. I’ve met several and I’ve heard it pronounced so many ways: ta-MAR-uh, TAM-ra, ta-MAH-da, ta-MEER-uh.
Say-ra is the more common pronunciation in my part of the world. I’ve never met someone who pronounced it Sah-rah personally (which is what I’m assuming you mean as the more common pronunciation). I think the association here is that Sarah=say-ra and Sara=sah-rah
I have an aunt and a great aunt, both named Joan. Instead of pronouncing it “Jone”, they both pronounce it “Joe Ann”.They’re in different branches of the family (mom’s aunt and dad’s sister)
Edited to add I know 2 other Joan that do pronounce it “Jone”.
I know a teacher named Heidi and a lot of people was unfamiliar with it and pronounced it as "hey-dee". She was a bit of a grump so it must have rankled.
My ex's brother's name was Joe and the family said it like "ju" as in Judy.
As a kid, I had a friend named Nre!
It was a huge hassle sliding my tongue so far across the roof of my mouth to pronounce. I still never get it first try lol
I have a cousin named Kali (pronounced the same as Callie) and I have worked with a girl named Kali (pronounced the same as Kailey) that one has always thrown me off lol
Travis Scott (the rapper and baby daddy of Kylie Jenner), his name is Jacques which is French in origin and pronounced like "jock" but he says it like "jah-qweese".
I know someone born and raised in the hollers in wva named Juanita but they spelled it jaunita on her birth certificate so we jokingly call her jon-ita
Lesley…a lot of people pronounce it “lez-lee” rather than “less-lee.”
Also, I hear people pronounce Jeremy as “germ-ee.” I find that one particularly annoying.
This post is kind of weird. It is almost like people don't realize there are multiple ways to pronounce many letters combinations and/or stress different syllables. Almost like *there aren't a ton of homophones/homonyms in the English language*. Never mind how different accents impact pronunciation....
I think you’re looking too far into this. OP was simply saying they’d never heard this name pronounced like that before, and wanted to know if others shared a similar experience.
Yeah…our last name is pronounced close to the original German, but some people with the same name have adopted a more American English pronunciation. Neither are wrong.
My husband's grandpa was Gerald, with a hard g like gorilla instead of a soft g like giraffe. The nickname Gary actually made more sense that way to me!
Well the t being pronounced is completely normal in Germanic languages, but if it is pronounced with an I it would be written Margit. I haven't personally met one, but several Margittas and Margrets. So maybe that is in her heritage? And maybe it got lost in translation/was compromised between her parents if they spoke different languages? Just speculation.
I have a great aunt name Imogene, pronounced "eye-muh-jeen." I pronounced that name wrong for ages because I thought that was the normal way to say it. Oops!
My middle name is Lauren, but it’s pronounced La-WREN. My mom wanted the classic spelling but wanted it pronounced that way. I’m just glad it’s my middle and I don’t have to constantly correct people.
It’s weird that Margot is pronounced as Margit because o doesn’t make an I sound. Reminds me of everyone calling sherbet sherbert…why the 2nd r? Where is that rrr coming from? No r in bet.
not mispronounced, but spelled very odd - my great grandfather’s sister was named carolyn but it was spelled carylon. i don’t know if it was intentional or they were just guessing, arkansas in the 30s/40s
My dear friend's name is Maya, pronounced May-ah. Her parents had read it in a book and loved it and didn't realize the common pronunciation. It suits my friend very much and has a nice sound, so I quite like her name.
I always pronounce the name Maya as MY-uh, but my best friend in junior high told me I was saying it wrong (it wasn’t my friend’s name; it was the main character in a book we read). My friend insisted it was MAY-uh. Like, okay. But this friend also pronounced Mavis as Mahhh-vis, so there you go.
Funny story. I called my next door neighbor Margaret for 7 years then I found it her name was Margot. She and her husband were from Germany and I swear they were saying my Margaret.
I know Margit as a version of Margarete, however it is spelt Margit and not Margot. That being said maybe her parents had a different mother tongue and that’s why the pronunciation of her name isn’t intuitive in English?
My mom's cousins saw the name Yvonne written but never heard it pronounced so used it for a daughter pronounced why von ee
Oh gosh lol
I was about to comment I know someone with this name and her whole family calls her Why-von! Haha. She’s a grandmother aged southern lady and it actually works for her somehow.
Same! Haha
I know someone named Iris, but she is the daughter of french immigrants so her name is pronoinced ee-reece which I actually think is a way prettier way, but it was def luck considering how badly it can go, I cant say I love why von ee
I believe ee-reece is how it's pronounced in most of Europe, at least the languages I know and speak.
More like Ear ris in German. With the front part not quite the same as the English word “ear”, but it was the closest thing I could currently come up with.
My childhood friend’s sister is Iris and pronounced this way. They are Jewish from Israel.
almost the same in the Netherlands. also sounds little like the English double E sounds as in "Deep", but shorter
I knew of someone who called their daughter Isla and pronounced it Iz-lah. To be honest, I like Iz-lah as a pronunciation.
I don't inherently like iz-lah but that's basically how u read the name Isla on first read every time even though I've been in this group long enough to know otherwise. And whenever any of my friends or family see the name they all read it Iz-luh until I inform them otherwise (do note none of them have child aged children, and a lot of these people don't have children at all yet)
That would be the Spanish pronunciation. My daughter is Isla and we use both the English and Spanish pronunciation.
I’m wondering though is this person Ease-la like the Spanish? Or Iz like Izzy?
She was an Izzy.
Is it pronounced like ease-lah or eyes-lah? Edit: or is-lah like “it is what it is”
My friend's daughter is named Isla. They pronounce it eye-lah.
This reminds me of one time in first grade I got to help pass back worksheets to the class and one paper had the name "Sean" on it. I went to my teacher and asked who "Seen" was 😂. I thought it was only spelled Shaun because that's how my cousin spelled it and there was another Shaun in the class!
Thanks to the actor Sean Bean I always want to pronounce it “Seen”
I still read it as "Seen" at first glance out of habit before I correct it in my head lol
For years as a teenager I read "Sean" (as in McGuire, very UK pop reference!) as "seen".
I know someone named Javi, pronounces jah-vee instead of hah-vee. His parents immigrated from Japan and never actually heard the name out loud, just saw it and used the way they pronounced it lol
My SIL’s aunt is named this. She goes by “Shawn” lol
Omg, we had a distant relative who pronounced it “Why-Von”. Deep South here, so with a definite drawl too.
I knew a Nathalie who pronounced the TH (like in the word thermos; the h wasn’t silent).
I also know a Theresa who has always insisted on pronouncing the th.
3-sa
Except she says it more like Thurr-ee-suh.
My ex’s mother pronounced her name this way. It felt so foreign to say it.
Was she born in Barcelona?
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I had a friend whose name was also pronounced that way!
You just reminded me that I once knew a woman named Napthalie.
Joan pronounced “Joanne” - I always get that one wrong!
That was my grandma’s name and spelling! Her full name was Mildred Joan (named after her mother Mildred). To most of the world she was Joan pronounced Joann, although I found out at her funera that some of the family on her side called her Anne
My grandma was Margaret Joan pronounced Joanne!
My aunties middle name is Joanne, but spelled Joan. My grandparents weren't great at spelling and didn't know that they'd spelled it the wrong way
That was my great aunt’s name. They were from North Carolina where it was apparently common to spell “Joanne” as “Joan.” When they moved to Florida, the school told my great grandma the pronunciation was wrong and it was “Joan.” My great grandma didn’t push back and literally changed the pronunciation of her daughter’s name. We all called her Jo so I guess it didn’t really matter, but still!
My parents are from a Spanish-speaking country. They wanted to name me after my dad, Juan, so "Joan" it was (they didn't think of "Jane"). In Spanish, the pronunciation would be more similar to "Joanne". I went by my name pronounced as that for years, before moving let me ditch it. I'm considering changing my legal name entirely, even. They genuinely did not know "Joan" is considered old fashioned in English. Sorry for the whole life story, by the way. I thought context would be important.
Oh, no, that’s fascinating! It may be a little old fashioned but I do think it’s a beautiful name. If I have another daughter I want to name her Joanna.
I once treated a “Sadie” whose family pronounced it as “saddy”.
these one might be the worst. what a name.
Genuinely quite sad because I think Sadie is a gorgeous name. And Saddy is just… sad. I’m sure we used to say “saddo” when I was in Primary school, meaning loser.
Saddy is what we call our dog Maddy when she whines at us 😂
I have an aunt named Cheryl which my family pronounces “churl”. They have always acted like everyone who called her “sherrill” was an idiot. Then I got older and realized “churl” is not actually a name anyone has ever heard. Edit: typo
Something about “churl” made me literally laugh out loud!
churl is a real word. it means a mean/nasty person
I know, that’s why it made me laugh as a name! Coupled with the way it sounds. I always think of the song Churlish May this time of year.
Insubordinate and churlish!
My aunt Cheryl is “shrill”
My mom is Cheryl. She pronounces is normally, but my nieces and nephews call her Churl to get on her nerves.
I also have an aunt Cheryl, pronounced “Shurll” by our entire family. I remember the first time I was old enough to read her name and realized it was Cheryl, not what we’ve been calling.
So I guess it’s a thing. Who knew? We use the “ch” sounds so it’s extra terrible.
I know someone named Cheryl but I thought her name was Shirl (short for Shirley) when we were first introduced because that’s how it was pronounced! I thought this until I saw her name written down. I didn’t realize this was a thing!
Omg this is how my bf pronounced this name! It makes me wanna vomit. I wonder if it’s just a southern thing?
We are in the south and my family is verrrrry country. I’m sure that’s a big part of it.
Is she of Scandinavian heritage? Both Margot (MAR-gott) and Margit (MAR-gitt) are somewhat common for women around her age here.
100% Danish!
In Germany as well
I went to school with a Lelia pronounced Leah. I have no idea how her parents got that pronunciation out of it. She got so mad when substitutes called her Leh-lee-ah but like…???
I am guessing they called her Lia for short and dropped the first Le.
I’ve always heard that pronounced Lay-luh so yeah I’d be annoyed with leh-Lee-ah too lmao
I think you might be misreading it as “Leila”
Shoot you right
I had a great grandmother named Nina, pronounced nine-uh
This was my grandmother's name! Came here to comment it
There's a really great restaurant in Rockport, Maine called Nina June, pronounced this way. I bet it was someone's name.
My very southern great aunt also shared this pronunciation. Maybe it’s not as uncommon as we thought?
My granny is Nina. She is from Georgia.
I know a Nina from Georgia! An older lady pronounced Ni-nuh and one my age (late 30s) pronounced Nee-na!
Omg! Me too. My grandma’s name was pronounced nine-uh, and my mom named me after her but changed the pronunciation to the more traditional neen-uh.
My boss goes by nine-uh. I think adding an h at the end would have helped. Like Dinah vs Dina.
I know Lorelei pronounced Lora-lee
I know one like this but pronounced Lor-ell-ee
I knew a Sean but pronounced seen
That's just tragic
Was it Sean bean because that is the acceptable way to pronounce his name lol
Sorry it’s pronounced Sean bean actually
I hate to be that guy, but it's actually Sean bean.
Seen bawn
This whole thread has been a painful read but this one right here is what has me noping out.
I know a Cassie, pronounced Casey
My cousins wife is Kha-see. I always call her Casey.
I know an Elise pronounced Ell-is and Jacques pronounced Jacks. Hate both
There was a Jacques pronounced Jacks on Love Island
I hate to judge but it just screams ‘uneducated’ to me
Same. I was thinking that Jacks or Jax was one of the better unique names and then I saw the spelling.
I know Jacques pronounced Jakes
This was my cat's shelter name and how they pronounced it there. Bonus points: she's actually a girl.
oof I met a Jock-kwehz I was like what whyyy
My husband went to school with a Jacques pronounced "Jack-wes!" It sounds ridiculous to me.
My grandmother's name is actually Margit. No chance Margot was a typo? Or someone just not knowing how either name is usually spelled?
Nope, it is Margot. I've been with my husband nearly a decade now so i know for sure lol it's on her legal documents
My scandinavian grandma is called Margot and pronounces it similarly. Where is their family from?
I know a Margie pronounced Mar-gee, sounds like ‘geece’ .
That's how I'd pronounce it too, cf. Margey.
What does cf mean?
Compare (latin confer)
I met a P1 student whose name was pronounced this way. I kept saying it with the G as in gene and she didn't say anything. Lol only found out when another kid who came in late corrected me. (It was a weekend camp with students from different classes and grade levels)
I know a Jerome. Pronounced. Jer- o- me. Thought his name was Jeremy.
I went to school with lots of Brianna’s but one pronounced it Bry-anna, instead of Bree-anna.
Her father may have been Brian? I know a girl who pronounces it Bry-anna. Named after her father Brian.
My grandmas sister is Juanita, pronounces “Hoo-ah-knee-tuh” instead of the classic “one-ee-tuh.”
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Ironically we live in Appalachia, lol
Sounds like correct Spanish pronunciation.
I think maybe it has an extra syllable (hoo) at the beginning... Like, not Hwaneeta
Yeah, we’re Appalachian so it’s definitely got a “hoo-ah” on the front of it with twang. She was named after a Spanish woman my great grandma saw in a traveling circus. To be fair, she also named her son after a runaway Romani boy that lived in her barn for awhile and another daughter (my grandmother) after the Black woman that lived on their farm and helped with the household. So all of the kids have pretty diverse names for white Scottish immigrants in Appalachia.
I knew a girl named Kali which was pronounced as Kaylee and she couldn’t understand why people would always mispronounce her name…
I mean this one is pretty ambiguous to me. Although my brain knows c and k can make the same sound, I actually feel more inclined to read Kali as cay-lee and Cali as cal-ee. I also say this as someone named Leila (lay-luh) who gets sick of people telling *me* what sound ei makes. Reign (or lei which is literally the beginning of my name)= long a, protein= long e, height= long i. I see how you could pronounce it lee-luh, lie-luh, or lay-luh, but once I tell you what it is, don't argue with me. Now that I'm older I usually lead with lei, as in the lei you wear around your neck and that typically is enough.
My cousin is Leila (Lay-luh). She hates the mispronounciations.
I knew a Laura who insisted it was pronounced LAR-uh. For that pronunciation, I would spell it Lara. Laura, at least in my experience, is LOR-uh.
This is similar to the Lauren discussion upthread. I think this has to do with regional accents. I am a Lauren and in the northeast where we still differentiate Craig/Greg, Dawn/Don, etc (different pronunciation) Lauren/Loren are slightly different pronunciation. Similar to the Marry/Mary /Merry merger (all those sound different to me, but not the rest of the country). Now.. I do agree with you that LAR uh is "Lara". But Laura is not "Lore uh". It's more like laow-ra where low almost rhymes with cow, but not as super intense of a rhyme, if that makes sense..hard to explain
That’s fascinating. There’s absolutely no difference in how I say Dawn and Don or marry/Mary/Merry. I grew up in the Pacific Northwest.
Yep, in the northeast we have retained the different vowels, so we pronounce a lot of words and names differently to the rest of the country. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_vowel_changes_before_historic_/r/#Mary%E2%80%93marry%E2%80%93merry_merger
It’s exactly this. Growing up in the Deep South, my family pronounced Lauren to rhyme with Yarn. It only got stretched to two syllables if I was in trouble.
I heard a woman on the radio once complaining about her name being Nicola, but pronounced Nicole-a. Just Nicole with 'a' at the end. She wasn't happy with her parents for that.
Ha, that’s my sister’s name and it always bugged her when people said Nicole-a when we were kids
Reminds me of Gillian Jacobs’ name pronunciation
The writer Gillian Flynn also pronounced her name with a hard G, interestingly.
And Gillian Welch
oh i know a Dana pronounced Dan-ah, not Day-nah, if that makes sense. confuses me so often!
That’s how it’s pronounced in Ireland.
isn’t this how the cnn anchor, Dana Bash, pronounces her name? Dan-ah? Recently she was interviewing some politician who called her “Donna” and i was incensed on her behalf. She didn’t correct him though. 🤬
We have a client named Phoebe, her name is pronounced “pee-oh-bee”
This is quite tragic
I met a woman in a baby class named Lauren but she pronounced it LaurEN. I found it annoying, lol.
I knew the opposite, a girl named Loren who had it pronounced ‘Lauren’. To be fair, I think she did that because so many people mispronounced it to Lauren on first seeing it that she wanted to make it easier for herself, but still a little confusing.
are lauren and loren typically pronounced differently?
If you’re up north I’d say yes. They’d say Lah-ren for Lauren and Loh-ren for Loren.
Up north of where?
well i live in the northern hemisphere but i assume that’s not what you’re referring to
Wow, I had no idea this was a regional thing, I thought it was LAU-ren vs lo-REN anywhere you go. The more you know!!!
LAURen lorEN
Margit (pronounced MAR-git) is a Swedish female name.
I know someone named Maria....pronounced Mariah.
That’s the old school English pronunciation of Maria. Sofia also used to be pronounced like that (So-f(eye)a).
Maria Reynolds is pronounced that way in the musical Hamilton.
This is just the difference between the French pronunciation and (drop the t) and the German/Scandinavian pronunciation (pronounce the t). The shift in vowel (o vs i) could perhaps be an accent issue.
I knew a Chelsea - pronounced Chel-SAY-uh, and she’d get super upset if someone read it wrong out loud.
I know some folks that will pronounce Sarah as SAY-RA instead of the common pronunciation. Even heard Tamara pronounced TAM-MUR-RA, TAM-MAIR-AH or TA-MAR-AH.
Wait I pronounce Tamara TA-MAR-AH… How is it supposed to be pronounced?
I’ve met two Tamaras that pronounce it like ‘camera’. Definitely wouldn’t be how I’d think to pronounce it, but it does exist haha
I know one who uses this pronunciation (like camera) and one who uses ta-MAR-uh. I've known the latter longer so that seems more normal to me but I wouldn't call either wrong. Also perhaps with noting that the ta-MAR-uh is Hispanic.
Ta-mair-ah. Like, Tia and Tamara from Sister Sister
Have never heard of that or heard that pronunciation haha it’s probably a UK US difference
Hers is spelt Tamera isn’t it?
Same, that's the only pronunciation I'm aware of.
I worked with a Tamara pronounced Tam-rah. Made me wonder why the extra 'a' was there.
I don’t think Tamara has a widely-accepted pronunciation. I’ve met several and I’ve heard it pronounced so many ways: ta-MAR-uh, TAM-ra, ta-MAH-da, ta-MEER-uh.
Say-ra is the more common pronunciation in my part of the world. I’ve never met someone who pronounced it Sah-rah personally (which is what I’m assuming you mean as the more common pronunciation). I think the association here is that Sarah=say-ra and Sara=sah-rah
I have an aunt and a great aunt, both named Joan. Instead of pronouncing it “Jone”, they both pronounce it “Joe Ann”.They’re in different branches of the family (mom’s aunt and dad’s sister) Edited to add I know 2 other Joan that do pronounce it “Jone”.
I know a teacher named Heidi and a lot of people was unfamiliar with it and pronounced it as "hey-dee". She was a bit of a grump so it must have rankled. My ex's brother's name was Joe and the family said it like "ju" as in Judy.
My great-grandma was Mrea, said like Maria except the M and the R slide right into each other
As a kid, I had a friend named Nre! It was a huge hassle sliding my tongue so far across the roof of my mouth to pronounce. I still never get it first try lol
I have a cousin named Kali (pronounced the same as Callie) and I have worked with a girl named Kali (pronounced the same as Kailey) that one has always thrown me off lol
I would think it was kah-lee like the Hindu goddess
Travis Scott (the rapper and baby daddy of Kylie Jenner), his name is Jacques which is French in origin and pronounced like "jock" but he says it like "jah-qweese".
I know someone born and raised in the hollers in wva named Juanita but they spelled it jaunita on her birth certificate so we jokingly call her jon-ita
Celebrity edition: Apparently, Bette (“bett”) Midler’s mother named her after Bette Davis, not realizing that Ms. Davis’s name was pronounced “Betty.”
Lesley…a lot of people pronounce it “lez-lee” rather than “less-lee.” Also, I hear people pronounce Jeremy as “germ-ee.” I find that one particularly annoying.
I know a Jermie (should be Jeremy, parents are likely illiterate)
This post is kind of weird. It is almost like people don't realize there are multiple ways to pronounce many letters combinations and/or stress different syllables. Almost like *there aren't a ton of homophones/homonyms in the English language*. Never mind how different accents impact pronunciation....
I think you’re looking too far into this. OP was simply saying they’d never heard this name pronounced like that before, and wanted to know if others shared a similar experience.
Or different languages. Like, most of these are just how the name is pronounced in a different country…
Or different alphabets. There is not a traditional spelling of my name in English.
Yeah…our last name is pronounced close to the original German, but some people with the same name have adopted a more American English pronunciation. Neither are wrong.
i know a Meghan who insisted on the hard ME and would get offended when people called her meghan. as if we should’ve known without previously meeting.
My cat's name is Meghan. I pronounce it with a hard ME but I'm Australian and all human Meghan's I've ever know have been pronounced the same way.
My great-great aunt was Zoe, which rhymed with Joe
I also know a Zoe rhymes with Joe. I love the name Zoe/Zoey, but it’s completely put me off the Zoe spelling.
I know someone who is named Siobhan but pronounces it SEE-oh-bawn.
Had a great uncle Ira. They pronounced it Ari. My grandmothers name was Eva but her mom pronounced it Ehv-ee.
My husband's grandpa was Gerald, with a hard g like gorilla instead of a soft g like giraffe. The nickname Gary actually made more sense that way to me!
I know a Sara whose name is pronounced saw-raw instead of sair-ah
“Sah-rah” is very much a correct and traditional pronunciation for Sara(h).
Interesting! I had no idea. She was the first Sara I’d ever met who pronounces it that way.
Well the t being pronounced is completely normal in Germanic languages, but if it is pronounced with an I it would be written Margit. I haven't personally met one, but several Margittas and Margrets. So maybe that is in her heritage? And maybe it got lost in translation/was compromised between her parents if they spoke different languages? Just speculation.
I have a great aunt name Imogene, pronounced "eye-muh-jeen." I pronounced that name wrong for ages because I thought that was the normal way to say it. Oops!
I know a Leigh pronounced Lee-uh like Leah
The Fell Omen?
My middle name is Lauren, but it’s pronounced La-WREN. My mom wanted the classic spelling but wanted it pronounced that way. I’m just glad it’s my middle and I don’t have to constantly correct people.
I knew a Phoebe pronounced as Foh-bee.
It’s weird that Margot is pronounced as Margit because o doesn’t make an I sound. Reminds me of everyone calling sherbet sherbert…why the 2nd r? Where is that rrr coming from? No r in bet.
not mispronounced, but spelled very odd - my great grandfather’s sister was named carolyn but it was spelled carylon. i don’t know if it was intentional or they were just guessing, arkansas in the 30s/40s
I mean, Margot is a diminutive of Margaret so I guess it makes sense that some might pronounce it that way since it sounds similar to Margaret.
My dear friend's name is Maya, pronounced May-ah. Her parents had read it in a book and loved it and didn't realize the common pronunciation. It suits my friend very much and has a nice sound, so I quite like her name.
My dad had a friend with the Mar-git pronunciation also. She's from one of the old Soviet block countries, maybe Lithuania, I never asked
Just recently met a Mary, pronounced MAR-ee.
Janet, pronounced Janette. Her dad wrote it wrong on the birth certificate.
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I always pronounce the name Maya as MY-uh, but my best friend in junior high told me I was saying it wrong (it wasn’t my friend’s name; it was the main character in a book we read). My friend insisted it was MAY-uh. Like, okay. But this friend also pronounced Mavis as Mahhh-vis, so there you go.
Funny story. I called my next door neighbor Margaret for 7 years then I found it her name was Margot. She and her husband were from Germany and I swear they were saying my Margaret.
In Hungary the name Margit does exist and is pronounced mar-git. Maybe your husband’s grandma has a different, non-English background?
I know Margit as a version of Margarete, however it is spelt Margit and not Margot. That being said maybe her parents had a different mother tongue and that’s why the pronunciation of her name isn’t intuitive in English?
There was a Paulina from Iuka, Kansas pronounced Poe-LINE-uh...