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s/o baby names...pronunciation
No one says Raegan's name correctly...its always Ree-gan...ugh...we spelled it R-a-e-g-a-n to eliminate that...anyone else have this problem?
Re: s/o baby names...pronunciation
WTF? I totally say RAYgan when I see that spelling.
Landon is easy... our last name, on the other hand, is always butchered...
Stawiery. Take a guess on that one.
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When I see Raegan I say "Ray"gan too.
People ask me all the time when I say "Jane" - how do you spell that. I think people are so used to crazy butchered made-up names! DH and I joke that I should say "oh, it's G-j-apostrophe-a-n-e" or something like that, lol.
There was a whole thread this week on pronouncing my last name - ha!
I see it like the president. Huh.
I hate it when parents don't know what they are naming their kid. I had a coworker who named her son Elijah. She pronounced it Eli-Jah (hard j). Drove me batty. My grandma had a friend named Penelope. Pronounced Pen-Elope-Ee. Her mom had seen it in a book.
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I totally say Ray-gan when I see her name as well.
People are ALWAYS mishearing us when we say Taryn's name. They always think it's Karen, and we have to explain that no...it's like Karen, but with a **T**.
I don't get the ree-gan thing... especially with the a coming before the e. To me, ree-gan would be spelled Regan, and I would still pronounce that as Reagan/ Raegan upon first sight. That must be really annoying for you.
I don't like it when people spell names one way, and then insist they are pronounced another, against rules of phonetics. For instance, I had a student named Mysheiea and she insisted her name was pronounced "My-EE-shuh." Except based on spelling and phonics, no, it's not. Drove me batty.
Ditto! I once had a student named Geradana. She pronounced it "Jer-rod-in-a" and got really pissed if you pronounced it wrong...even on the first day of school.
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That's crazy! I can't imagine where they are getting ree from...
While in recovery, we realized while we agreed on Collin as a name, we had never discussed the spelling. I wanted one L, DH wanted 2. You can see who won. His fear was people would call him the punctuation mark like Colin Powell. I thought it would be fine but I had also spent the last 40 some hours in labor and not eating and had just had major surgery so it wasn't worth the fight.
I have at least 1 student a year named Tiara, pronounced TEE-AIR-UH. Um no, that's TEE-AR-UH (like the thing that goes on your head).
I have a Queensha this year... pronounced QUEEN-EE-SHA. I'm sorry, where's the E that should be after the N?
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I have a ton of Tiaras pronounces that same way and it drives me NUTS!
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