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Help[Opinions] Re: Purposefully mispronounced names
in reply to a message by New_Chloe
I've heard of someone named Halley, but it was pronounced like Haley with a long a, rather than a short one like it should be with a double consonant.
As a kid I always thought Emil was pronounced EM-il, like Emily but without the final ee. I still only like it that way, even though it's wrong. I'd never use it anyway so it's not a big deal.
Your Chloe story reminds me of how I heard a family member of mine pronounce Zoe as ZO the other day. It didn't hit me for a second that she hadn't said the ee, but I never said anything. It's going to cause a lot of trouble to mispronounce a common name! Chloe is going to get her name mispronounced correctly for the rest of her life!
As a kid I always thought Emil was pronounced EM-il, like Emily but without the final ee. I still only like it that way, even though it's wrong. I'd never use it anyway so it's not a big deal.
Your Chloe story reminds me of how I heard a family member of mine pronounce Zoe as ZO the other day. It didn't hit me for a second that she hadn't said the ee, but I never said anything. It's going to cause a lot of trouble to mispronounce a common name! Chloe is going to get her name mispronounced correctly for the rest of her life!
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Emil is pronounced that way (EM-il) too. I guess it's not the English pronunciation but it is a legit pronunication and the only way it's pronounced here (Sweden)
Emil is pronounced that way (EM-il) too. I guess it's not the English pronunciation but it is a legit pronunication and the only way it's pronounced here (Sweden)
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