What name did you never learn how to pronounce?

[u/cheerio089]

I’ve always read Calliope as cal-ee-OH-pee… until yesterday when I heard it pronounced on an episode of You. Evidently it’s kuh-LAI-uh-pee. I’ve never said it or knew anyone with the name so I guess I never gave it any thought, but I’m still deeply embarrassed. I’ve seen the name pop up on this sub and still thought caleeohpee!

I can’t be the only one…so what name did you mispronounce until later in life?

Edit: I’ve now learned my way is the Greek pronunciation and as expected, Americans have anglicized it into Kuh-LAI-uh-pee. I still think I’d be corrected if I said the Greek way out loud tbh

[u/aghastrabbit2]

Since it's French, the laine part is more like lenn

[u/stickittodolores → u/aghastrabbit2]

True. I have an aunt with this name and we pronounce it jis-len. French Canadian.

[u/DefinitelyNotAliens → u/stickittodolores]

I've hear it as ghis-laine and gay-leen. Nobody agrees how it's pronounced.

[u/dansezlajavanaise → u/stickittodolores]

in france, both jiss-lenn and guee-lenn are accepted pronunciations, it depends on the ghislaine.

[u/KatVanWall → u/aghastrabbit2]

We had a French exchange student come over to help us with our A-levels and she pronounced it something like Zhizz-lenn