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.)

I think it's interesting and kind of funny when people don't care how you pronounce their names. Although I think my mother doesn't really care how you say her first name.

I can't imagine not caring! My friends are pretty easy going people, though.

I sure care! And I feel horrible when I get a name wrong; names are important.

I'm not going to commit to any transliteration of the pronunciation. It's a reasonably long ee but the stress doesn't really go there.

FUCK. I forgot AGAIN to ask the migraine doctor for anti-nausea medication. Why do I never remember that in his office?

I go by Suzi because I hate correcting people on my given name. My parents were happy to find a name that would work both in Iran and America, didn't spell my name in a way that would help people pronounce it correctly. My aunt always spelled it Sussan (pronounced Sus-san). Instead people see Susan and say it Suz-in. I know it is(was) such a common name and my pronounciation is so odd, that I hate being picky.

How do people not care how their names are pronounced? Sure, I don't really care if I'm called Jilli or Jillian, but the pronunciation?

ION, have fallen into the rabbit hole that is "90s Goth" in the vintage section of Etsy. Send help.

My sister pronounces her name wrong. We say it lah rah in the family, but everyone else calls her low rah. So eventually she caved and changed, but I still maintain it is wrong.

I pronounce the Japanese part of my name a little wrong. Just a subtle difference in accent.

Unless I'm in Wisconsin, everybody pronounces my last name wrong. Sometimes I correct people, sometimes not.

It's weird when I tell someone my last name and 30 seconds later they're pronouncing it wrong.

I rarely find anyone to pronounce my first name properly - but I can usually get them to pronounce my last name properly, i.e., the way my family pronounces it. (However other families with the same name may do it.)