Why doesn't it happen to Joanne, Maryanne, Roxanne, Suzanne? Is it because of the movie Annie?

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Anonymous wrote:Are you sure they're pronouncing the "e" and not just imposing a nickname on her?

This. Everyone knows the 'e' is silent. They're just giving her a cutie nickname. If either of you don't like it, then correct them.

A generation of kids were taught to read without phonics and without phonics rules. A lot of them probably don’t know that the “e” is silent. Take it up with Lucy Caulkins.

THIS! It drives me insane. I am a Jacqueline who often gets called Jackie for no reason; even after I introduce myself as Jacqueline. But the highlight of my day is whenever I am called "JA-quellen", just like in the skit. Most recently it happened at a Chick-Fil-A by a teenager calling for my order...in Bethesda. Perfection.

My dd is Katherine and get called “Kathy” and it drives me insane.

Anne is elegant, yet old sounding. Annie is more fitting for a kid.

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Anonymous wrote:Why don’t people know that the name Anne is the same as Ann just with an e at the end? It’s not Annie

Are the people who do this native speakers of English? Sometimes people who learned a language later in life will have trouble pronouncing proper names in the language.

Anyone who ever read Anne of Green Gables knows that Anne with an E is the more elegant way to spell the name.

Native speaker here. Yes, Annie has been a nickname of Ann and Anne, forever.

Actually both the e and the second n in Anne are silent. The name should be just An.

People cannot spell or read. It's not you or your daughter's fault. I wouldn't change it. If people are illiterate, correct them. They need to learn.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you sure they're pronouncing the "e" and not just imposing a nickname on her?

This. Everyone knows the 'e' is silent. They're just giving her a cutie nickname. If either of you don't like it, then correct them.

A generation of kids were taught to read without phonics and without phonics rules. A lot of them probably don’t know that the “e” is silent. Take it up with Lucy Caulkins.

THIS! It drives me insane. I am a Jacqueline who often gets called Jackie for no reason; even after I introduce myself as Jacqueline. But the highlight of my day is whenever I am called "JA-quellen", just like in the skit. Most recently it happened at a Chick-Fil-A by a teenager calling for my order...in Bethesda. Perfection.

I got my eye on you, JA-quellen!

Anonymous wrote:Well, when I first read your subject line, I thought your daughter was named “Anne-people” and I did think that was a strange name.

That’s what I thought, too!

Anonymous wrote:The E in Anne is not silent, it’s more of a soft E. If you want no E you have to spell it Ann. They are not the same.

This is not true at all. Many Annes in my family and it is pronounced Ann but spelled with an e.

As in:

Anne Bolyen
Anne Frank
Princess Anne
Queen Anne
Anne Hathaway
Anne of Green Gables
Anne Klein

and many more

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Anonymous wrote:Are you sure they're pronouncing the "e" and not just imposing a nickname on her?

This. Everyone knows the 'e' is silent. They're just giving her a cutie nickname. If either of you don't like it, then correct them.

+1 is your DD a young child? Then that's why.

You must go through life in almost constant stress.

People are often flawed. You can’t control them. If this bothers your child, she can change the spelling of her name.

If it bothers you, you probably feel bad about choosing this spelling, and are deflecting .

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Anonymous wrote:DD's name is Sophie and everyone calls her Sophia.

Get over it, OP. It happens.

I'm terrible with names. I know a Sophie who I called Chloe for a year. I also called someone named Ashley, Lindsey for a year.

Our neighbor of 20 years calls me Cathy. My name is Sarah.

So funny. My old neighbor of 10 years would call me Brian. My name is Randy. I even signed notes to him as "Randy" and I will always be Brian to Mr. Charles next door. LOL.

As far as the OP, if Annie bothers your DD, gently correct them. Names are funny. Had a manager named Christian that would go by Chris. My son is Christian and hates getting called Chris. Fraternity brother was James and only James. No Jim, Jimmy, etc. You could really get under his skin and introduce him as Jimmy. Drove him nuts!

If you don’t want problems, name your kid Joe or Sue or Frank or Carol. Anything much more complicated than that can be botched in pronunciation or spelling. You are especially asking for trouble if it’s Jacqueline, Geoff, Ta’quandreé, Bjorn, etc.

I’d assume it’s a nickname.

My sister is Kate (as her full name) and everyone calls her Katie. It’s catchy and I have to stop myself from saying it too. It drives her crazy. Lots of names are like that and when kids are young they get an extra “y” at the end of their name. Like Billy, Bobby, Timmy. When they grow up the Y finally goes away and they become Tim.

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Plenty of people default to common nicknames. It has nothing to do with being unable to read.

And this “default” is rude and disrespectful.

-Rebekah not Becky