I dunno how many different ways you can pronouce Martin, but I had a soccer coach when I was younger who could not manage to call me anything besides “Morton”. Yes, he knew how it was spelled, and that is how he pronounced it. I think he was from, eh, somewhere over nort’ by dere.
Mih shell and Iv onn,pronounced by thick cunts in England as Meeeeshell and Eve onn.
Some old English names that I personally think the pronunciation is silly Cholmondely which is spoken as chumley,Mainwaring ,mannering and Magdalene (as in the university college )maudlin.
Aaron. Here we pronounce it as it’s written, Aaron. The American pronunciation, Airen.
So do you say “ah ah RAHN”? Saying “as written” doesn’t always clear things up. :dubious:
It gets me when people say their own names differently but keep the spelling. This sets up a pronunciation trap that can be used to one-up strangers. “No, it’s SuzAHnne.” “I say MeLEEsa, actually.” Well fine, Melissa, but why not spell it Melisa? (I see no easy fix for Suzanne.)
Not by THIS American! 
My brother’s name is Aaron. There’s a country music star named Aaron Tippen. The only time I’ve ever heard it pronounced AY-ron was the year we lived in Louisiana. We pronounce it just like the girl’s name Erin.
Alicia can be a-leash-a or a-lee-see-a
Ana can be ohn-a or ann-a or, in the case of my little sister who insists on extending all her vowels, eeeaaaaaaanna (or eeeeaaaaann, which is her name)
Laura… some people say lor-a, some people say lah-ra, some people say lair-a
How about IRAQ?
Irr-ahhk or Irr-ak (UK)
Eye-rak (USA)
I wonder how Iraqis say it.
Cassandra
Shawn.
The ‘w’ is pronounced in some dialects, not in others.
Can I include place names?
Chili - pronounced with two long I sounds: Cheyeleye. Though most people new to the area try to talk about Chilly.
Charlotte - emphasis is normally on the first syllable: SHAR-lot, the local town is known as Shar-LOT.
You don’t want to have me even touch how you should pronounce Nunda…
I’ve heard that there’s a place where they call the wind Maria, pronouncing it ma-RYE-a. The same pronunciation is used in the phrase Black Maria, a synonym for paddy wagon.
SurrenderDorothy: I pronounce Laura “LAWR-a”. If I heard “LAIR-a” or “LAR-a”, I’d assume the name was spelled Lara.
Guy.
Dana–Day-na or Dawn-a.
I knew two people with the name Dana.
One was a man, who pronounced it DAY-na.
The other was a woman–she pronounced it as DAN-na.
Down south we have a corner on this market.
Our pediatrician’s name is Chevalier, which can be pronounced Shev-a-leer or Shev-all-yay.
Robert is Robert like the name or Ro-bear (that’s one’s about 50%/50%). Same with Hebert except it’s almost always aye-bear.
Melancon = mel-awe-sawn
Boudreaux - boo-droe
Thibodeaux = ti-buh-doe
My favorite is to get Yankees to try and pronounce the name of this town.
knack-i-dish I wish I knew how to make a spoiler box.
type the word ‘spoiler’ between these brackets , type your spoiler comment, then type ‘/spoiler’ between the brackets again.
If you go to reply to this post you’ll be able to see the codes that let me put the pronounciation you’d listed in to this spoiler box.
knack-i-dish
Thanks! I’ve learned my new thing for the day … guess I can go to bed now
My name’s Donna, and I recently had the experience of being on the phone with a customer service rep. who wanted to spell it d-a-n-a. I was really confused then, but I guess that explains it. I’ve never heard of Dana being pronounced like that.
This is more regional accent than anything, but I say “don-uh”. Like the men’s name Don(btw I pronounce Dawn and Don identically). A lot of people say my name as something like “dahh-nuh”, which sounds so wrong to me.
My name Cormac can be pronounced:
Cor-muck
Cor-mick
Car-mick
Cor-mack
and several times in the United States I’ve been called Mac-Cor-mack probably because it’s not such a common name in those parts and is often only heard as a surname.