[PoooBear]

Does you name get butchered all the time when people try to pronounce it?
Do you change the actual pronunciation of your name so it's easier for other's to pronounce?
You know those times when someone asks for your name, or the roll calls in class or even at your graduation

For me, I've lived in the USA for 11 years, and I've found very few people who can pronounce my name correctly.
Granted that they don't speak my language, but it happens all the time. But I've noticed that most Asian languages use one syllable words. So I've changed the way my name is pronounced in one syllable to two syllables to help with pronunciation, but as time goes on, I actually start to believe that that is the name I really have.
My name is Truc btw, and I've heard it called "Truck" or even "True" and I think to myself, where did the extra letters come in?

One time my name got butchered really bad was at my school's Awards ceremony (before graduation), and our Assistant principal was presenting us with our awards and she completely failed when it came to my name, ALL THREE TIMES! So the third time, my entire senior class all spoke out in unison and said "It's Trueee-k". I guess I felt loved xD
Good thing at graduation, it was our class president and vice president announcing or else it would have been worst.

How bad has your name been butchered? for those who use your Asian names.

I've searched to see if there's a thread like this and couldn't find it. If there is, please DELETE this, thanks :]

[daintymilk]

Haha yeah, a lot of people can't pronounce my name properly.
My real name is Si-yuan, people called me Si-yawn (what the hell?)
But I didn't cared and got used to it. Since people can't pronounce my name,
I just tell them to call me Cee instead (:

[rectitude*]

my asian name gets butchered all the time,
but I always just correct them. I don't understand some of their
pronunciation though, like my last name is Cha, and some of them
would have the hardest time pronouncing it...sometimes it's "Chae" "Cho" o_O it's just "CHA".
if it's just a substitute in my class for a day, sometimes I don't even
bother correcting him/her because i get tired of correcting people or people in my class will correct them. XD

[loveof]

ahaha my last name is LO pronounced low but a lot of people say law or l-au

[kor3an__]

me.
My name gets butchered ALL the time. Every substitute teacher, (and of course, the first week of school), and during academic award assemblies..

[BrittanyKim]

MEEE
ugh. My korean name is Siweon, but it's the same as Siwon, but because of the 'e' they say Se-we-on.
it's so annoying.

[oohdi]

mine is Oudalone (oo-dah-lawn)
and uh.. ive gotten

gradalupe (LOL)
gradalone
odd a lone
and they tease me mow the lawn =[

but uh.. i just make them call me my middle name.
and i HATE first day of school its always a day i dread because
all of the teachers butcher it. and people laugh at it

[Shikabane Hime]

mine is Oudalone (oo-dah-lawn)

OLD-ALONE!

lol

I just look at them and say "my name owns your name."

[mango-iee]

my name is Manh Hoa (Man - Wa)
and for some reason, most of my teacher pronouce it to "Man Ho3" instead. -.-

[~Sen~]

My name gets slaughtered all the time...

Some of the letters in my name are silent, but people don't know that so my name just gets messed up on the first day of school lol

[[MeiMei ♡]]

my name's meiling.
ugh; i totally agree with the slaughtering. my name's like pronounced my-ling, meee-ling or mi-ling
people nick name me as meimei now

[missM.]

mine is ngo.
its really annoying because i've gotten nee-go, bingo, and the worst one i got was nigel. ergh.
the n & g is silent so its just "O"
on top of that, when they butcher my name, they HAVE to ask how to say it.

[ketchup?]

I think I have the worst name to butcher ever. 'My Phuong Huynh'
I hate the first day of school, substitutes, and anything that has to do with people calling me by My Phuong. The sad part is, my dad stuck my surname and my name together so it just looks like 'Myphuong' As if my last name doesn't already look hard to pronounce.

My friends make fun of me all the time. I get 'my foot,' 'my fungus,' 'my fong,' 'myfung,' 'meefong,' 'meefung,' and the list goes on. It's even worse when they actually ask me to pronounce it. *cries* When they skip my first name and try my last name, I get 'Hung,' 'Hoon,' 'Huhh..nnn,' 'Hooyen,' and so on and so forth. It's pronounced 'win' by the way.

[Star!Stung]

My last name is Gershon and almost EVERY teacher I have pronounces it as Gershin.
WTF? Can they not distinguish different vowel? I gave up correcting them, though my friend loves calling me by my last name and sometimes she corrects people that say it wrong or don't know it. Tee hee
And it's not only the asian names that are said wrong. My last name is Jewish.

[VietBunnyChan]

I don't know if I name is asian or not (or any origin at all!) but it's Nynna (Nee-nah like Nina) ^^ Some people get it right, some don't >< I usually let people know my name before they find out the spelling. I've been called 9-UH, NAI-AH-UH, Niana, or they'd just call me by my middle name or last name >< I get really mad when they mispronounce it on purpose TT-TT But then again I'd tell them my name is cooler than theirs because I've never found one person in my entire life with a name like mine unless I meet another person named Nina but the spelling is still different xD

[Yuenie]

Hmm well my Chinese name is Yuen. I just tell them to say "yoon" to make it easier. But most people look at it and think it's "yoo-en". Although when I try to tell people how to say it the 'chinese way' they kind of butcher it into weird sounds...

Then there's my REAL legal name, Asdy, that 80% of people don't pronounce it right because it's a totally made up name with no ethnic origin. I just let people pronounce that however they want unless they're way off. I had some math teacher say it like "ass-stry" the whole year.. I corrected her the first month but then just gave up.

[maydai3333]

My name is Jie, pronounced like the letter g. But people end up pronouncing it like pie, but with a j. It's so embarrassing, so I can say, I honestly hate those dumb introduction games, substitutes and new school years.

[PoooBear]

Then there's my REAL legal name, Asdy, that 80% of people don't pronounce it right because it's a totally made up name with no ethnic origin. I just let people pronounce that however they want unless they're way off. I had some math teacher say it like "ass-stry" the whole year.. I corrected her the first month but then just gave up.

OMG LOL! sounds like my chemistry teacher, I just quit after a while. So I let her call me "Truck" the whole year my classmates kept asking if I was going to correct her, and I was like "Nawwww"

My name is Jie, pronounced like the letter g. But people end up pronouncing it like pie, but with a j. It's so embarrassing, so I can say, I honestly hate those dumb introduction games, substitutes and new school years.

I thought it was just grade school that did that!
Apparently, we did it in college too

[prisonerzero]

Some of these stories are cracking me the hell up 'cause some of these names are so simple that I don't understand how people can get them so out-of-there wrong.

But I'm curious... how DO you pronounce your name?
I'm interested in names, so I like asking and knowing.

[Kakakaii]

My names Kawai pronounced Cuh-Way, and people have a hard time pronouncing it when they read it, especially substitutes.. "Kaw-wai" "Kawi" "Kai-Wei" "Kaw-Wai" It's supposed to be pronounce Ka-Wai, but I changed it to Cuh-Way, to make it easier for people to pronounce.. My english teacher, still keeps calling me "Ka"[Caw] .. I don't feel like correcting her, since she's been using that for months ^^;