Because apparently it's supposed to be more like: "Moh-(ch)Knee."
Whoa. Having grown up around a lot of Mahoneys, my mind has just been blown.
Jayne (Husband): Oh, I think you might wanna reconsider that last part. See, I married me a powerful ugly creature. Mal (Wife): How can you say that? How can you shame me in front of new people? Jayne (Husband): If I could make you purtier, I would. Mal (Wife): You are not the man I met a year ago.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Polgara - Jun 04, 2012 2:03:10 pm PDT #8284 of 30001
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Jesse - Jun 04, 2012 2:05:01 pm PDT #8285 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
My grandfather pronounced our last name different from either of his children or any of their children, but he was definitely saying it wrong! Or at least, he was making a letter silent for no apparent reason.
Sue - Jun 04, 2012 2:09:14 pm PDT #8286 of 30001
hip deep in pie
I had a friend in drama school named Attila. But he didn't pronounce like we do, to kinda rhyme with flotilla, but "Ah-tee-la." And he wanted everyone to pronounce it that way. Which I did (when I didn't forget and call him Alex), but I always felt douchy doing it.
Consuela - Jun 04, 2012 2:09:23 pm PDT #8287 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Because apparently it's supposed to be more like: "Moh-(ch)Knee
Or MAH-he-nee, I think.
So far as I know, my family name has always been pronounced the way we do now. But it's an unsettling possibility!
Consuela - Jun 04, 2012 2:10:36 pm PDT #8288 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
But he didn't pronounce like we do, to kinda rhyme with flotilla, but "Ah-tee-la."
One of the friends at my brother's wedding was an Attila. He pronounced it AT-illa.
Still, better Atilla than Adolph.
NoiseDesign - Jun 04, 2012 2:24:01 pm PDT #8289 of 30001
Our wings are not tired
I don't pronounce my last name the correct way. It should be "dee-EL" but it's already unusual enough that people can't get it right, I can't imagine what would happen if I tried to get them to pronounce correctly.
Even a lot of folks back in Ireland don't bother pronouncing it correctly.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jun 04, 2012 2:27:55 pm PDT #8290 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
(small pass given to the Quebecois accent, for vaguely nostalgic feels)
With you there. I answer to my name pronounced like the New York baseball team when it's a hot French-Canadian hockey player doing the mispronouncing. Others need to use the same vowels I do.
§ ita § - Jun 04, 2012 2:28:45 pm PDT #8291 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Correcting people repeatedly... I guess it can get old, but I'm not likely going to stop it, at least in the occasions where I get the slimmest segue. Which includes the first time you say it to my face.
Wow, this is so not funny or a good idea in the same state that took days to consider the Trayvon Martin case worth prosecuting: [link] Dude dresses up like a zombie and chases people in a parking lot.
I wish there was a way I could remotely knuckle-smack right now.
Sue - Jun 04, 2012 2:31:01 pm PDT #8292 of 30001
hip deep in pie
My name is mispronounced so regularly I am surprised when someone gets it right.
t /graduated from both HS & uni as an atmospheric layer.
Atropa - Jun 04, 2012 2:31:33 pm PDT #8293 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Oh Tumblr. Someone just left a comment on a post of mine calling me out for using passive voice. I find this strangely adorable.