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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm an Alyssa who is used to being called Melissa, Alisa, Alice...whatever. It's a name that's often misheard in introductions and mispronounced when read aloud. My rule for correcting is if it's a brief interaction with someone I'm unlikely to encounter again - like a nurse calling my name at a doctor's office or a barista writing it down on a coffee cup - why bother? [b]If it's in a professional setting, meeting parents of my children's friends or classmates, neighbors, I absolutely simply restate it.[/b] FFW I have relatives who still pronounce it Aleesa so some people just aren't attuned to these sort of things and that's fine.[/quote]
+1 for my impossible to pronounce last name.  I try to make it easy for them: "Oh, it's actually [correct pronunciation], I know it's a tough one."

Same rules for my name (often misheard, as PP above) and my sons' names (both have slight variations on more common names).  But minus the disclaimer about the name being weird, since these names aren't weird, people just don't always pay attention.[/quote]

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