How many people get their names pronounced wrongly (not in India Style) and wonder how would you spell your name if it was supposed to pronounced exactly the way in US istyle.
I never get my name pronounced exactly the way it should, i am always called out as NiTOOL and i guess Ajay and Vijay would be just AJ and VJ.
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I have no complaints regarding the pronounciation of my name. Most people in my company refer to me correctly.
me ofcourse, pronounced correctly
And I am A Mit
Bhumi usually gets pronounced first as Boomi. But once they see the spelling, then pronounced correctly.
I have had mine massacred when I was in School on the east coast. My advisor would call me “YeaGar” ( with the J silent).
Gradually my name became JagerMaister in my research group.
I am sorry that was me, Amisha, my mistake I wrote Arvind. (that is my FIL’s name. When he was here in the states, he got pronounced as Air Vind. He still remembers that.)
Jeinay of course is very lucky in the sense that he does not have to explicitly remember to say “Honey I am home” in the evening. 🙂
Even if he is in a grumpy mood, it will still come out as “Honey I am home”. 🙂
And I am Sank-It (like: there was a ship called the Titanic, somebody “sank it”) 🙂
For some reason some people like to pronouce my name as Rohaat. I have never tried to ask them why they think an ‘i’ should be pronouced ‘aa’ in this case. But again, I could not figure out why the grizzly bear we spotted in Yellowstone was being refered as ‘she’ by all the Americans as there was no way to determine the gender from >20 ft.
Weird people. Weird language.
I knew there was more to Sanket’s name than meets the eye. Obviously some desi on the doomed ship sent a distress message (Sanket) in hindi which was not understood by the Videsis and hence the desi effectively Sank-It. 🙂
Kairavi K-Ravi
Keya K-Ya
Aarshi R-Shi
K-Ya is the right pronounciation for Keya.
R-shi also is almost the right pronounciation for Aarshi.
my kindergarden teacher used to call me Prerna (preena).
Most people call me “Jay Tin” and some call me “Jaa Tin”. Some even call me “Justin” or even “Hatin” J being silent…
I realised a long time ago about how I was going to be called and hence stopped correcting people.
People have called my name differently “Ku Mal”, “Kho Maal” and some i don’t even know to spell. i have never bothered to correct them. after working at my company for over a yr, one day someone asked how exactly is it pronounced.. and trust me its gotten worst, just 2 people say it right.
One of my Project Manager who can never do it right and she knows she can’t… she still asks me how to say it each time we converse.. and one day i myself pronounced it wrong to her.. uhh.
Good post yaar.. reminds me of how my name should be pronounced correctly.. most of them here say “Paris”… or “P-Raas”. I end up correcting everybody who pronounce my name wrongly.
My name is generally pronounced correctly but always spelled incorrectly as ‘Lena’ or ‘Lina’. English is a funny language !!! Generally, there wouldn’t be a problem either pronouncing or spelling a name in hindi imho.
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On a side note, here’s a funny excerpt exploring the oddities of English language (like Amitabh did in that movie…)
There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple… English muffins were not invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies, while sweetbreads, which aren’t sweet, are meat.
We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write, but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce, and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So, one moose, 2 meese? One index, two indices? Is cheese the
plural of choose?
If teachers taught, why didn’t preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
In what language do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?
Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?
How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites? How can the weather be hot as hell one day and cold as hell another?
When a house burns up, it burns down. You fill in a form by filling it out, and an alarm clock goes off by going on.
When the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible. And why, when I wind up my watch, I start it, but when I wind up this essay, I end it?
Good one leena 🙂
During my school days, my Geography teacher used to pronounce my name as ‘Nai’-‘Tool’ as if i was some Hajamat ka Tool that Nai would use :-),but never the less i used to like it
Leena to further your thoughts its the same as to Tu Go is not Gu but Go 🙂
That is why English is not so good of a language for Computers to Learn. No wonder Spock and Data in Star Trek always used to get confused. 🙂
Sanskrit with its well formed grammar is considered to be a good language for computers to learn. But unfortunately Sanskrit is going out of fashion. 🙁
Well, Sanskrit has been out of fashion ever since, common people were prohibited from learning it i.e. over a thousand years. It would have become quirky, if not as much as english, had it been spoken or used widely.
I usually tell people my name is like Damn It, with a Nim. Then they don’t forget 🙂
Many times the problem is that we spell our names incorrectly in English. For example, many times we use i for for the long E, when really we should use ee (for ex. Viral should probably be spelled Veeral).
A funny example from Gujarati is how people say “Aav jo” for “goodbye” 🙂
Imho “Aav jo” is the ‘Until we see you again’ equivalent instead of ‘goodbye’. I guess it is more polite to say – ‘go and come back’ instead of just ‘go’. There is a similar term in hindi – ‘phir milenge’.
‘mein aata hun phir’ is always considered nice/lucky to say instead of ‘mein jaa raha hun’
Yeah, even maharashtrians say “Mee yete” rather than “Mee jate” when they are leaving.
My is worst of the lot, they call me ‘mela’ istead of ‘mala’ & it sounds more like ‘melya’
in marathi