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.)

Sure, ita !, but please correct me should we meet F2F again.

One of my friend's friends is Italian -- born in Sicily and lives in Italy-Italian. She speaks impeccable English, but her accent renders my real first name into something so lovely and charmimg...I love it.

(She made me read Latin to her when she discovered I'd studied it, and about laughed till she cried. I was all "Rita, it's a DEAD LANGUAGE!"

She replied "If it were not dead, you certainly would have murdered it!" and went off into peals of more laughter. I wasn't offended.)

Name pronunciation always amuses me when listening to local newscasters. They will read the entire news story with perfect nondescript broadcasting accent, until they get to the person's name. Then full on Latino pronunciation. Which is proper in my mind, but a stark contrast to the accent used in the rest of the story.

It is important to me that I pronounce names correctly, and am often told I am the 'only one' that gets a name right. Yet when I had a more difficult to pronounce name it didn't bother me at all when people mangled it.

On the L home this evening, several young women got on and I heard them pronounce Wabash as "wuh-BASH". I snorked and thought of you guys.

It's WA-Bash, right?