About some reviews on the correct pronunciation of names appearing here frequently. Many of the newer participants won't remember similar threads from yesteryear on a board that is gone but not forgotten.
For example: Codespoti......is it Co-duh-spotty?...is it Code-spa-tee?...is it Kuh-des-putty?
Another: Karoly......is it Carol-ee or Kuh-roll-ee?
Another: Binge.....is it Bin-guh or rhyme with cringe?
BTW, Cow rhymes with bow. 🙂
For Codespoti I think of a fish with spots. It's probably not close to how it's is said but "Cod is spotty"
Karoly I think of Chirstmas "Here we go a Karoly"
My name is almost always pronounced wrong. If it sound somewhere in the vicinity of my name I'll answer to it or run. situate dependant. 😉
I tend to get har-NESS a lot. It seems difficult for people to believe that my name is an actual word in the dictionary. I am just glad my parents didn't name me Horace.
John - Unless your name is pronounced way different than it looks, how do people go wrong exactly? Is the "G" pronounced like a "J" and the "i" like "eye", and the "e" silent? That's the way Bob Giles that I went to grade school with pronounced it anyway. I never knew him to have any problems.
yep. G has a J sound and the rest is like 'Miles' pretty simple.
I friend of mine had a friend with my same last name. My friend argued with me about how his buddy pronounced his last name. He had known this guy since they were kids. He had been pronouncing his friends name wrong all those years.
Around here they never get it right.
Giles (g has a g sound)
Gilees (g sound)
Gile-less (g sound)
Gillees (g sound)
Gills
Now all of those (except the top one) switch to j sound and you have a new way to say it.
and the one I'm know best by in one part of my world
I once listened to a clients message wrote down their name and then called them and mispronounced the name I just heard them say a few hours prior. McIntyre. "Hello Mrs. Mc Intree" It's a common name around here. I don't know where my 'thinker' went. We all do it.
I don't think Binge is a name used frequently here
But for the pronunciation
it is Bin-gee (hard G)
I got that straight from the horse's mouth so to speak.
My name is easy and always has been until I confronted deep south born in the heart of dixie dialects. They will say He-ill and some how slightly tweak it a 2 syllables using the drawl.
Being that I live in the county next to Giles Co., VA, I'll assume that that is how you pronounce it. (like Jyiles)
The only other way I can think of is like how a 2nd grade teacher of mine (in Ohio) pronounced it like Guy-ills.
and... FWIW mine (Correll) is pronounced like Corel paint or Corelle dishes. It is NOT pronounced like the sea growing item (Coral) or where you store a horse (corral).
Around here it tends to get lengthened to Correllllllll
John-Son.
Yumpin' yiminy, I tought it was Yonsun.
paden, long "A"..
cash, as in green
> BTW, Cow rhymes with bow. 🙂
er...rhymes with bow as in bow-and-arrow, or bow and in bow to the ladies....?
Some say my name like "adams-surveyor" but a lot say "a damn surveyor" I'm proud of either.
Rain humm ... I guess pronunciation has never been a problem for me. Now spelling is a different story, it always seems to shock people that it's spelled just like the stuff that falls from the sky. As to pronunciation like my dad always said your name is your property and you have a right to pronounce it however you like "You can spell it Sh_t and call it Jones".
RRain
I knew someone would catch that eventually.
Cow rhymes with what drunks get into sometimes....a row.
