Do you know...

WilLoW :--) · Post by **WilLoW :--)** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 6:21 am

...how to pronounce my firstname ?

it's ERWAN

how would you pronounce it?
Do you have a name that other people pronounce the wrong way ?

Jebadia · Post by **Jebadia** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 7:47 am

Erwan...would that be pronounced kinda like ewan (Uwan).

And as for my last name Llewellyn...people still can't seem to get it right a lot of the time.

WilLoW :--) · Post by **WilLoW :--)** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:14 am

in fact it's more like air-1 (I don't know, as in "air force one")...I think you were close

Umm...Llewellyn, le'ts see...

L
é (as in "café")
w
u (as in "but")
lin (as if it was a chinese or japanese name

)

I'm sure I'm wrong somewhere

methinksIMweird · Post by **methinksIMweird** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 8:33 am

erwin. cant pronounce it. haha no one can ever pronounce my last name or even spell it. i used 2 have a contest in my school to see who culd spell my last name. no one won.

Gaikotsu · Post by **Gaikotsu** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:26 am

My first name (Justin) isn't hard to pronounce, but for some reason nobody ever remembers it. I always get called Jeremy, John, Jason, etc. And for some reason, 2 people who had never met each other always called me Dennis.

Flint the Dwarf · Post by **Flint the Dwarf** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 10:31 am

Mine's tough as hell to pronounce. It's two letters, begins with C and ends in J. My choir teacher once had to have me repeat it for her three times before she could get it.

Jeb...

Loo... well... en... ?

Savia · Post by **Savia** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 1:47 pm

Jebadia wrote:Erwan...would that be pronounced kinda like ewan (Uwan).

And as for my last name Llewellyn...people still can't seem to get it right a lot of the time.

I guess it depends on whether you go for the Welsh pronounciation or not. They pronounce 'll' as a rolling 'chl' sound.

A lot of people pronounce my username differently from how I would. I would say SAH-vee-ah, but seeing as it's made up, it doesn't really matter.

Oh, and my IRL surname is Lyford-Smith. I'm sure you can guess the kind of problems you get with that.

jonmartensen · Post by **jonmartensen** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 1:53 pm

Since I live in Texas, my last name "Martensen" is continually mispronounced as if I'm supposed to be Mexican.

-Hello, is Mr. .....Martinez...uh....sin? there?

Jebadia · Post by **Jebadia** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 1:54 pm

flint_the_dwarf wrote:Mine's tough as hell to pronounce. It's two letters, begins with C and ends in J. My choir teacher once had to have me repeat it for her three times before she could get it.

Jeb...

Loo... well... en... ?

Haha..he did better than Willow.

Loo-well-lin

It's actually easy to pronounce...but I've heard some outragious misspronounciations before, mostly from the dumbest people on Earth...telemarketers...

WilLoW :--) · Post by **WilLoW :--)** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 2:00 pm

Jebadia wrote: It's actually easy to pronounce...but I've heard some outragious misspronounciations before, mostly from the dumbest people on Earth...telemarketers...

"Yeah, Mr Lyaouwayleun, I have this wonderful thing to sell at an incredible price"