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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have never heard someone say ‘Wez-Lee’, I’d find that super annoying. If you like the name, keep it and keep correcting them. At some point I’d probably tell them that I find it disrespectful they keep mispronouncing his name.

I have a name that can be said differently depending on which syllable you put the emphasis on. I don’t have any issue correcting someone, but they normally say it both ways and check - like “potato? Potahto?’ And I’ll answer ‘potahto’ or whatever. But if someone continually called me the wrong name even after being corrected I’d be very annoyed, it’s incredibly disrespectful.[/quote]

You must be annoyed a lot. [/quote]
No, I’ve actually never met someone who continually mispronounced my name after being corrected. I can’t imagine how rude someone would have to be to do that. [/quote]

People with a different accent than you aren’t being rude and they aren’t mispronouncing anything.  They’re saying your name in their accent.

This isn’t a My Fair Lady situation, and if you continually try to “correct” the way another person speaks, you are actually the one being rude.[/quote]
No. The correct way to pronounce someone’s name is how they want it pronounced. If this was an ethnic name it would be considered a micro aggression to continually mispronounce it. You should really take the time to learn how to pronounce someone’s name if you’re going to be using it. Failing to do so is lazy and rude on your part. [/quote]

I struggle with this.  I went to school with a girl that insisted that everyone say her name in her native accent (think Teresa in Spanish vs English).  It always felt faintly ridiculous to be in the middle of a fully english conversation and use Spanish pronunciation for this one word — like people who say Par-ee for Paris when speaking in English.  (And, incidentally, it is certainly not my experience in traveling in Spanish-speaking countries that the people will be at pains to use English pronunciation instead of Spanish for my name.). I also certainly don't affect a British accent and drop the r if I'm talking to an English Christopher, or whatever.[/quote]

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