You leave my Kaylee alone! 
That’s actually where we got the name, but not the spelling. 
In Lord Joss’s defense, “Kaylee” is only a nickname, and I think Kaywinnet Lee is a shiny name! But I couldn’t go that odd for my kid.
Hey, wasn’t there a Pit thread around here somewhere?
Thank god she’s fictitious.
I know a Kayleigh. Poor thing.
the “ya no” shook me badly, too.
I think so, WhyNot, but this is more interesting and fun than just kvetching about posters who are just special.
This thread makes me want to go on an erotic journey from Milan to Minsk.
All I have to offer in this thread, aside from my general glee whenever Carol Stream is skewered, is that Alexander Hamilton’s mother’s name was Rachael Levine. He was born in 1757, not sure about her.
I seem to remember from a semantics course that proper names may be pronounced and spelled as the possessor of the name chooses. I’ve mentioned before knowing a Bishop whose last name was spelled “Vander Horst.” It was pronounded as if it were “Van Draws.” His brother pronouned it just the way it looks. Both of them were correct.
You may also change the spelling of your name and be correct. It doesn’t depend on whether or not it has been spelled that way previously. (You don’t have to consider the superiority of someone else’s opinion.)
It is considered incorrect if someone pronounces or spells your name in any way other than the way that you have chosen.
I just noticed a headline that says that the Swedes have relaxed the laws on giving children unusual names such as “Budweiser.” People want to name their babies after fast foods. Remind me to have little Chili Pepper baptized.
No, she wasn’t born in 1757 but in fact several years earlier.
That’s correct- the person or place it applies to calls its pronunciation. Common examples:
Beauchamp (family name)- pronounced beech-ham
Strahan- pronounced “strawn”
I lived in Lafayette, Alabama when I was a kid- it’s pronounced lah-FAIT. It’s not too far from the Piedmont [PEED-mont] but thousands from Piedmont [pee-AID-moan].
Georgia place names:
Cairo (pn. KAY-ro)
Buena Vista (rhymes with tuna mister)
Schley- (sly)
Perry- parry
Albany- all-BENNY
Pasta 
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Anywho, I hear one week out of every month Starbucks has raspberry jelly filled cunt muffins and occasionally cream filled ones … if they get lucky.
CMC +fnord!
As someone whose last name does not look like the way we pronounce it to 99% of Americans and as someone that purposely gave my daughter an very uncommon spelling of an already uncommon name, I agree with you 100%.
My last name appears to have three general pronunciations. The purely Italian way with the rolling R, the slightly Americanize way losing the rolling R and the more Anglicized version which still treats a final i like a long e.
My daughter’s name is extremely rare. I think I checked the census and found only 6 listed. I am sure a pedantic person would hate that we chose it.
Does anybody remember the Reader’s Digest bit about girl who was given the mainstream name of “Yvonne” but as she got older, in order to stand out, she changed the pronunciation to “Why-Von-Knee”?
Ya know, it seems obvious that risotto is rice, not pasta, (given the name) but apparently it’s a common enough confusion. Maybe familiarity with orzo is part of the reason.
Thankfully, I’ve never heard of that. However, what really irks me is the number people who don’t seem to know that an initial “y” can have a long “ee” sound and so pronounce the name Yuh-von. I’m not talking about women with the name who might pronounce it that way (I have never come across this, but if they exist, it is their prerogative to pronounce it as they wish) but outsiders who do so. Ugh!
Huh. From Algher’s link, I see that as of 2006, “Bryan” has eclipsed “Brian”.
In your FACE, I-boys!
I said he was, not his mother, but I assume you typoed and refer to the small controversy over the matter of whether Hamilton was born in 55 or 57. I believe it was 1757 for reasons that would be an even bigger derail, but I’m fairly confident no real consensus has ever been reached.
Another Georgian pronunciation: Villa Rick - ah (Villa Rica)
I thought Sampiro was just riffing on the fact that your sentence kind of reads like Alexander Hamilton and his mother may have both been born in the same year.
Illinois has some great regional pronunciations, caused by pioneer types who didn’t know how to pronounce French names. A friend from out of state laughed at our pronunciation of the town of Des Plaines, for example (esses are not silent…it’s pronounced exactly how it looks). Don’t know why that’s more laughable than the standard pronunciation of Detroit, but apparently it is!
My personal favorite is a town south of the city called Bourbonnais. Locals have always pronounced it Burr-BONE-iss, although news anchors always seem to use the French pronunciation.
This probably stems from one of the vowels shifts in the English language that has the Britons saying “clark” for “clerk” and “darby” for “derby.” Now, is it pronounced with the nasalized “a” like a “parry” in fencing? Or is it closer to “porry?”
Daughter of a brook, surely?
Then I should win an award for incredibly nerdish message-board-related myopia in this whoosh.