Yosemite
I've learned in school quite early that it is pronounced as Yo-semmy-tee, but I deliberately pronounce it Yoh-ze-mite, because it's funny.
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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.
All English town names, by spite and ignorance but mostly spite.
Oh, I am not pronounching "Glouchestershire" correctly? SPELL it correctly then!
For all native English speakers, this is how the rest of us feel about any words in English
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
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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".
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"
Start intentionally pronouncing "Pittsburgh" with the -burgh suffix from Edinburgh or Musselburgh to get them back
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I'll answer for the 99% of people in my life: Hiram
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Pronounced Siobhan as SheOhBahn for years.
Sorry SheVohn!
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.
For me it's, Saoirse
I have to look it up every time I see it.
If I remember this one, it's Sher-sha?
Yeah, and apparently it's the Irish equivalent of fucking "Joan" or similar. JFC.
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.
came here to say literally THIS name haha, crazy
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!
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.
Two common names in Scotland are Aileen and Eileen but damned if I don’t say the wrong one every time.
I always pronounced Tolkens name as Token, apparently nobody else made that mistake.
Ghislaine, but I do it on purpose.
I'm still trying to get some Irish names right in my head, specifically Rhiannon and especially Siobhan.
Team Jizz Lane
The Irish name that gets me is Cian, especially cause I used to know someone named Cyan (like the colour).
I did so too but that's because I knew an actual Ghislaine who pronounced her own name like "djizlaine"
Internal monologue:
Fuck. Jeremy? Germy? Jehrehmy? Jerremy?
Yo! J-dawg how's it hanging man?
Lancaster (as in Pennsylvania).
Pronounced it as "LAN Caster" like some sort of cyberpunk mage.
Chongqing like "Chongqing Chicken". not pronounced "chonking".
"Añejo", not pronounced "ah-neh-joe"
"Hors d'oeuvre". funnily not pronounced "horse divorce".
"Hors d’oeuvre”. funnily not pronounced “horse divorce”.
That's a new one and I love it I like calling them "hours devours" which also adds in a non-existing consonant.
yeah, french (and borrowed words) is usually my hard-mode when it comes to pronunciations. this one is special because it's dessert (or so I think).
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How's Chongqing pronounced?
Any Chinese name beginning with X. Took me awhile to figure out Nuyen as well.
Nguyen
'N when did you find out?
Isn't X just like a muted "sh"?
Just mentioned this in another thread - Kraken. I say it phonetically - "krayken - but for some reason the world says "cracken".
Hasan - I feel like different people have different pronunciations of it and I can't keep track of which is for who.
Apparently, any Indian names until I can see how they are spelled.
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