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.

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!

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.

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.

(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.

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.

My name is mispronounced so regularly I am surprised when someone gets it right.

t /graduated from both HS & uni as an atmospheric layer.

Oh Tumblr. Someone just left a comment on a post of mine calling me out for using passive voice. I find this strangely adorable.

I completely fail to see what was wrong with your post, but I'm going to hazard it is just another thing we didn't get taught at my school.

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Whoa, a nerve block is IMPRESSIVE! Surgery went fine; I have 5 metal screws and a metal plate in my wrist. I woke up in a pretty serious amount of pain, and did actually ask for the nerve block the anesthesiologist had suggested probably would be desirable post-op.

Not only can I not feel a thing below my left elbow, my left forearm and hand are completely immobilized; I can't control it at all. Without the sling, it flops around like a dead fish! It's very, very strange and is supposed to last 12-14 hours.

And despite the anti-nausea patch they put on, I thought I would hurl when i got home and lay down, but didn't. I ate a piece of bread verrrrrry slowly, with sips of water. I tried to write something amusing, but my eyelids literally kept drooping shit and it was all:

myyyy===== ae \ ju7s kewe===

Mo, really. So I fell into bed for two hours, and up. Arm still completely as described before! DH made me broccoli and cheese soup and gave me a cookie, and I am drinking a huge glass of water with lemon: BLISS

oh, and ita !, this name convo is the perfect lead-in for something i have felt stupid for for YEARS: what IS your preferred pronunciation? I have been saying ee-TA, with a very defined strong "t."