"No. Your name is..."

[elisabeth rae]

If its the one that is Italian and starts with a G, I've gotten it on school acheivement certificates before! lol

Yup, that's the one!

Yes, most people ask me if my name ( Connie) is short for anything but in a polite manner.

connie mou, I have a cousin who is just named Connie, and the same thing happens to her! She is named after my grandmother, Konstantina. Everyone kept pressuring mt uncle to name his daughter after her. He finally agreed but just picked Connie because he thought it was cute and Konstantina was too big a name for a little girl.

[diana_m]

On occasion, people pronounce my name (Diana) like Dee-anna, rather than Dye-anna, but I've never had anyone try to convince me that I was mispronouncing my own name. A friend from high school constantly had this problem, though. Her name is spelled Caroline, but is pronounced "Car-o-lee-nah." She is German and follows the German pronunciation. Teachers were always trying to get her to go by the traditional pronunciation of Caroline. I also knew a girl in college whose name was spelled "Ava," but was pronounced "Ah-vah."

[chelserzz]

My name is Chelsey. easy right? Well, in middle school I had an elderly-ish teacher that insisted it was pronounced shay-la-say. I wasn't the only chelsey/a in the class either, there were two others one spelled chelsie and the other chelsea. She pronounced those right. I guess you never know how something is pronounced these days....

[taylorblueskye]

When I was little people would say Jana to me all the time. Jana was just way more common than Dana. (I know it's totally common in the US but here its not really). For some weird reason that stopped in my teenage years and doesn't happen anymore. Maybe it helps that now babies get so many different names from all over the world. That just wasn't that common in the eighties.

[zoevictoria]

It does happen, although a lot of people don't even want to pronounce my given name. But if they do know my name, they always tell me how it should be pronounced. It's annoying... I know about five pronunciations but if I just introduced myself with a version I don't see the point of letting me know there's others as well.

[riodwanee]

My name is Chelsey. easy right? Well, in middle school I had an elderly-ish teacher that insisted it was pronounced shay-la-say. I wasn't the only chelsey/a in the class either, there were two others one spelled chelsie and the other chelsea. She pronounced those right. I guess you never know how something is pronounced these days....

He probably did it on purpose, to help him distinguish you guys.

[kaysee712]

Yep! My name is Casey and once my manager at work was like are you sure your name isn't Cassandra? And I said umm yep I'm pretty sure it's just Casey

[flick]

Yep! My name is Casey and once my manager at work was like are you sure your name isn't Cassandra? And I said umm yep I'm pretty sure it's just Casey

This is funny to me because I AM Cassandra, I go by Cassie and people call me Casey ALL the time. >_<

[lieseysmom]

I don't have a whole lot of problems, other than people who try to write Rachael or Racheal instead of Rachel, but I will never forget one day in 7th grade. I go to third period lit class and we have a sub. She is calling roll and gets to the guy in front of me who is Indian, pauses a minute to figure out Kumar, then calls his name, mostly right. Then she pauses on me. Now I know *I* am next. Rachel. Ray-chul. Why is she pausing longer on that then she did on Kumar the "foreign name"? Finally she looks up and says "I'm not sure if it's Raquel or Rachelle?" I said "No, it's just Rachel".
Then, exact same day, I go to 4th period English. Substitute. Gets to Kumar, pauses, figures it out, gets it mostly right. Pauses slightly and calls out "Rachelle". How on earth do I get two different subs to show up on the same day that can't figure out Rachel? Do that many people spell their name Rachel and pronounce it ruh-SHELL? And no possible explanation for turning me spanish with Raquel.
It's not even like I lived in a very racially diverse area at the time. I remember my entire high school of 2000 had 2 African-American families, 1 Asian family, 2 Hispanic families, and about 6 Indian/Pakistani families. Rachel is just Rachel.

[kaysee712]

This is funny to me because I AM Cassandra, I go by Cassie and people call me Casey ALL the time. >_<

I also get called Cassie sometimes, like some people in high school did it just to piss me off, but some teachers really didn't know its not pronounced like Cassie