How can I meet people if my name is difficult to pronounce?
There is a question to be asked - what do you want more: preserving the original sound of your name or making new friends?If your name is important enough to make up a part of your identity, and if you cannot be around people who mispronounce it, then the choice is made. Only people who are either from your original place of birth or people who are really good with linguistics will be in your surroundings.If your name is important to you but not to the point of becoming a roadblock to making friends, you can go one of the two ways: - either choose a similar-sounding nickname based on your current geography- or use the original meaning of your name (for example, my name "Margaret" means "a pearl" in Latin, so this meaning can be translated into another language to preserve it).You are absolutely right that if someone does not say your name (repeating it right after you have said it), they won't remember it.There is another downside to this - they can give you a nickname themselves and it may not be the one that you like, so it's best that at least you pick what you want to be named.Then another question remains: if you think that school is tough, just wait until you are looking for work!It's best that you think about it now while you are surrounded by a non-competitive (relatively) crowd than when you have to enter the workforce.I have personally witnessed (but was not a part of) a candidate selection process where a person did not get chosen just because their name was a bit difficult sounding and managers just could not learn the proper pronunciation. With that, they decided not to hire the person (ultimately going with less-qualified candidate but with an easier name) - the reason was not wanting to offend the person by butchering the name each time the person needed to be called.
POLL: Do you have a difficult name for people to pronounce?
whoa, that is a cool name!! well, my name is always mispronounced, which really sucks. all you say is "pra-na-vi." oh gosh, you should hear my science teacher (actually, she's my long term sub), she pronounces my name "pra-Vani". i've corrected her very nicely a number of times. then one day, this girl bethany was sick of her pronouncing my name wrong, so during attendance, bethany yelled, "it's PRANAVI, NOT PRAVANI" it was so funny. the worst part is that she still pronounces my name wrong to this day. so it's still "pravani." although my nephew is so cute. he can't remember "pranavi" so he calls me "stephanie." he's so cute :)
Is my name difficult to pronounce for native speakers of American English?
It's like telling the future, not hard to do, but hard to be correct. We can all pronounce it but don't know if we're right. I'm a graduate of the Washington Montessori Institute and your name when I pronounce it, sounds somewhat like hers, except the zeri is pronounced like zero with a long e instead of a long o. However I am educated, an ESL tutor with 10 years experience, a world traveler, and old. I have no idea how the young, uneducated hordes who've never been out of the country will deal with it.
Is my last name hard to pronounce?
My last name is Kovacevich (ko- vuh- se-vich) and people allways pronounce it Ko- vahh- suh- vich or Kov-uh-sich. Me and my peers think it is funny when it is pronounced wrong over the loudspeaker at school occasionally, but sometimes it makes me so mad because people don't even TRY to get it right! they just mumble somthing and move on. It is my name, not just some old word. So, the question is, do you think my last name is diffucult to pronounce without looking at the pronounciation I gave?
Hard to pronounce names?
Why would she want to do that? Then the child has to spell it out and pronounce it wherever she may go! That's horrid. Why not: Audrey Sophia Nora Elizabeth Edit: As for suggesting Irish names because they are "pronounced differently" in that language, those letters make the sounds you're describing. There is no K in that language for example, and bh & mh make a 'v' sound. Edit2: I know that was easy for me to say because A) I'm part Irish and B) I know *some* Irish. (I'm Canadian, it's not taught in the school system and I'm trying to learn it independently.) So take a look at this site to help you out: http://www.standingstones.com/gaelpron.h...
Why do Americans find it so difficult to pronounce British place names, especially anything that ends with 'shire'?
I helps to live in the United Kingdom, and to have some knowledge of where the name comes from, even when mispronounced.Reading JRR Tolkein helps in this.Shire means “share” and is pronounced “shur”.Woohstershur for Worcestershire.Lesstershur for Leicestershire.Bury and Bry means “hill” and is pronounced “bree” or “booree”.Newbree for NewburyBooree St Edmunds for Bury St EdmundsCombe means “valley” and is pronounced “come”High Wicome for High WycombeCaster and Chester mean “castle” and are pronounced just like they are speltManchesterDoncasterNote that Leicester is pronounced “lester” even with a “castle” in the name, which is why one can always tell a tourist in London, who ask where isLEH-SESS-TER-SHIRE Square.To answer your question, they find it difficult because they do not live here and learn it without thinking too much about why the spelling does not make much sense.After all, a SHIRE is just a SHARE of land. Look how the pronunciation of that has changed in all that time.
What are some names that are hard to pronounce?
Disclaimer: My own opinion incoming.Names of places in Iceland happen to be one of the most mind boggling things I’ve encountered, because they happen to be ridiculously hard to pronounce (at least in my opinion and several other people I have interacted with).Hallgrimskirjka - name of a Lutheran church in Reykjavik.Þingvallavatn - name of a lake.Hvannadalshnúkur - the highest peak in the country.Grjótagjá - name of this cave:Or the winner Hallbjarnarstaðakambur (refers to the place where fossils can be found). Good luck pronouncing that. The fact that the grammar is not better makes Icelandic one of the most complicated languages to grasp.But even Icelandic fades when you encounter a Maori name of a place on the North island of New Zealand - Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu which means “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the climber of mountains, the land-swallower who travelled about”[1] .Or this place in Wales:Footnotes[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Is the name Gianna hard to pronounce?
no i think it's a very pretty name.
How would you rather pronounce this name: Ayeh? ?
My name is Ayeh. It's an Arabic name and is therefore difficult to pronounce. During my high school years, I told people to call me Eye-ya or I-ya. Several of my classmates as well as my teachers had difficulty pronouncing it. I'm starting college on Monday and was wondering if I should just tell my professors to call me A-ya. As in the letter A then ya. Not yeah. Advice? Opinions?