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.

X-post with Natter:

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."

I had to announce my friend and her new husband at their wedding reception and I realized right before that I had no idea how his (and now her) last name was correctly pronounced. So I ran around asking his family members and they all said it slightly differently! And said that it didn't matter! So I ran to quickly ask the groom & bride how they wanted me to pronounce it and they said they didn't care. IT WAS VERY STRESSFUL!

(FTR, the name is the same as one of the seven sisters' schools. The one affiliated with Columbia.)