Heres an example from The Aviator with the cigarette girl.

Guy pronouncing names wrong. 22K Comments 57K Shares 4M Views. Although technically not a celebrity Elon Musk and Grimes newborn baby has been given the most unusual name of all time. Te Whare Kotua says it was the first time he felt offended at someone pronouncing his name wrong.

I get it The C-Y combination at the beginning of a word isnt a thing we do here. We release new videos throughout the weekSubscribe for MORE. More YouTubers more names more anxiety inducing mispronunciation - Benedict Townsend is at it again.

How long did you last before you crackedSubscribe to get a little more Unicorn in your life. Bring it up at the moment It may feel awkward to interrupt the flow of a conversation with a name correction but bringing it up in the moment can help you. I often have to go through multiple reiterations before a stranger will even get that right.

These all have anglicised versions but if theyve never heard them before an English speaker would probably have no idea how to pronounce these. Fieri was legally Guy Ferry until he married his wife in 1995 which is when he officially changed his surname to match that of his great-grandfather Giuseppe Fieri means proud in Italian. And when asked at the San Francisco Whiskey Expo in the early aughts how to pronounce the name of his distillery Tom Bulleit the founder of Bulleit Bourbon is reported to have replied Just like the ammunition So Steve or whatever you name is I hope youve since learned the error of your ways.

The Right Way to Say It. Its simply sigh and fred as in the name Fred and not say-freed as most people say it. The history of classical music is filled with many glorious and varied names.

Few times you will meet people pronouncing your name wrong on purpose. Good thing we can pronounce them all correctly. Now I introduce myself with Hi my name is Awk-SHY-yah Na-ta-RAH-jan nice to meet you and have effectively canonized this mispronunciation of my name as a part of my identity.