Do you have a name that may have different pronunciations? I didn't realize mine did tell several people started saying it!
For instance, Lady Lissame
I pronounce it Liss-uh-mee, but many others are saying Liss-uhm.
Anyone else?
Hmm, nope, I always saw it as Liss-ah-me. =D
I have people calling me "Marty" all the time....its pronounced Mare-Ta
Oh. Sorry, I was always thinking Mare-teh- I was close though! =) But Marty? I don't see that...
Ahhh... now this is a thread that could help me a great deal! I found out about a year or so ago that a lot of people pronounce my Faire name phonetically, saying the first part as though it rhymed with man, like "RAN-ee", but instead it's an "ah" sound... (accent on the first syllable):
RAH-nee Zeh-MEER-uh.
I always think yours either Rah-nee or Rae-nee...
It's aaaah... ;) heheh
Ok... I'll join in mine is ME-ann - though so many say me-HAN.
Oh... and I had Rani right - yipee
;D I thought that might be how you pronounced yours, although I wasn't positive, but I did have Lissame and Mairte correct.
Catalina
with Spanish accent
Kot-uh-Lee-nuh
Quote from: mehan on October 07, 2010, 07:05:06 AM
Ok... I'll join in mine is ME-ann - though so many say me-HAN.
Oh... and I had Rani right - yipee
Yay! I thought yours correctly, too! =)
Quote from: DonaCatalina on October 07, 2010, 10:11:41 AM
Catalina
with Spanish accent
Kot-uh-Lee-nuh
Ok,
that had me. I'm a Californian, and I was pronouncing it CAT-uh-Lee-nuh, like hte island. I was spot on the others though.
Mine is simple. Rowen 'Row-in'
I do not spell it Rowan for the simple reason that it seems like
everyone spells it like that or the more exotic 'Rowyn'.
My mother calls me %#^^@%$#, but it's MER-lin ;D
If you can't pronounce Jon Hanslow............
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get your head checked :D JK!
I figure my name is pretty straight-forward, but in case of any questions, it's DROO-duhn ;)
Quote from: Rowen MacD on October 07, 2010, 10:47:15 AM
Quote from: DonaCatalina on October 07, 2010, 10:11:41 AM
Catalina
with Spanish accent
Kot-uh-Lee-nuh
Ok, that had me. I'm a Californian, and I was pronouncing it CAT-uh-Lee-nuh, like hte island.
That's ok- most people don't think about the Spanish pronunciation.
So, being Spanish, your title should actually be Doña?
Quote from: Merlin the Elder on October 08, 2010, 07:26:56 AM
So, being Spanish, your title should actually be Doña?
Yes, but at the time I signed up the forum didn't want to accept the tilde.
Understood. But next we meet, I'll at least say it correctly!
Oh, me!
Nee-en-iss!
Or:
drun-ken-faun
Either way works XD
Ooh! I got them all right so far! ;D
My faire/SCA name is Signora Ciana Leonardi (di Firenze). Nobody gets Ciana right. It's chee-AH-nah.
This is a helpful thread! I had most people right.
Oh, mine is pronounced....Bob.
LOL!
Here's another "tough-ie",
MOL-DEN
;D
Y'arrr even!
Wren-A (long A like in the alphabet with the accent on the second syllable)
Get lots of times REE-knee
Our last name is Dowe. I always say like the Dow Jones Industrial or Dow Chemicals without the money.
Many people pronounce it like the word "owe" with a D in front of it. Like dough that you bake with.
Quote from: Bob of the Lake on October 21, 2010, 07:07:21 AM
This is a helpful thread! I had most people right.
Oh, mine is pronounced....Bob.
E: "What is your name?"
B: "Kate."
E: "Isn't that a bit of a... girl's name?"
B: "Oh, um... it's short for 'Bob'."
--- 'Bob' (a.k.a. Kate) and Edmund Blackadder (Blackadder, Series 2)
My name is also pretty simple - David
Nothing too complex about it, except my Dad used to call me "Brother Dave", due to his listening to
Brother Dave Gardner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother_Dave_Gardner) back in the 1960's. ;) ;D
Quote from: dbaldock on October 21, 2010, 06:44:58 PM
Quote from: Bob of the Lake on October 21, 2010, 07:07:21 AM
This is a helpful thread! I had most people right.
Oh, mine is pronounced....Bob.
E: "What is your name?"
B: "Kate."
E: "Isn't that a bit of a... girl's name?"
B: "Oh, um... it's short for 'Bob'."
--- 'Bob' (a.k.a. Kate) and Edmund Blackadder (Blackadder, Series 2)
LOL. By coincidence, my daughter's name
is Kate. But no, I didn't name my son Baldrick. ;)
I've been using mine in SF cons for since 1994. When I started doing anime cons in '06, people thought it was Japanese and tried pronouncing it. (it's an acronym)
ME
A
yoU
wHO?
Most people pronounce it somewhere around Meow or Meh-yu.
Because of my time working for Federal and State governments, it's listed as a legal alias.
That could be pronounced another way, also...
Rhyme it with Beau... / Ho LOL
Quote from: Bob of the Lake on October 21, 2010, 07:07:21 AM
This is a helpful thread! I had most people right.
Oh, mine is pronounced....Bob.
booob
booooooob
boo
b
buh
bbe
hmmm
boooobs
is that close?
B-AHH-b...
Could be B-OH-b, I suppose... but I'm pretty sure you have to have at least 2 o's for it to make the oooo sound. :P
Quote from: Rani Zemirah on October 22, 2010, 10:09:23 PM
B-AHH-b...
Could be B-OH-b, I suppose... but I'm pretty sure you have to have at least 2 o's for it to make the oooo sound. :P
I don't know about correct pronunciation, but said that way would be more "appropriate"....
[open wiiiiide! ;D ]
See... smart-@$$. :D
Not my faire name but my real for some reason has been giving me some problems. It is simply Gloria and whether I pronounce it with my PR accent or "americanized", people are callling me Claudia. ???
Shilori is pronounced she-lore-ee many people think its like shilo the dog....making it sound akward lol.
wwhoooo, meee? :D
Oh, well... him to, of course! :P
Quote from: Lady_Glorianna on October 23, 2010, 03:51:21 PM
Not my faire name but my real for some reason has been giving me some problems. It is simply Gloria and whether I pronounce it with my PR accent or "americanized", people are callling me Claudia. ???
That one is inexplicable to me.