Re:The effects of growing up with an extremely common name
by Insanity on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:41AM
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I have a more or less common name, but there are multiple ways of spelling it and the English pronounciation does not match the one native to my country.
Dylan is pronounced almost constantly in the English way to the point where I gave up correcting people. (Because I am okay with it even if it does not sound like 'my name'.
To make it worse, my neighbour when growing up was about my age and his name was "dilan" pronounced the english "dylan"
Way.. So friends mixed up our names sometimes.
Though they sound quite different, at least to me.
My last name has the same issue. Multiple pronounciations and spelling thus I always have to spell it out or correct people as well.
And my last name is common in all spelling variants.
Your problem does occur even without an exotic name, unfortunately :p
Dylan is pronounced almost constantly in the English way to the point where I gave up correcting people. (Because I am okay with it even if it does not sound like 'my name'.
To make it worse, my neighbour when growing up was about my age and his name was "dilan" pronounced the english "dylan" Way.. So friends mixed up our names sometimes.
Though they sound quite different, at least to me.
My last name has the same issue. Multiple pronounciations and spelling thus I always have to spell it out or correct people as well.
And my last name is common in all spelling variants.
Your problem does occur even without an exotic name, unfortunately :p