I had a substitute teacher who was calling out roll by everyone's full names, and he literally pronounced all three parts of my name wrong
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· 9 years ago
Gotta love them Italian surnames....nobody ever gets them right.
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· 9 years ago
Funnily enough, it isn't Italian.
You see, my grandfather was born on Cyprus, and migrated to Australia. Upon arrival there, he changed his surname from Christadolou to Morrell. It wasn't until I started high school and there was another person with my first name in the class. His surname was Natoli, so everyone called me Morrelli, just to make it, I dunno, similar.
So yeah. Backstory.
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· 9 years ago
Heh....I had an Italian friend with Morrelli as a surname so I just kinda assumed.
People still can't pronounce or spell Italian surnames, though.
My last name is italian but its not that hard of a name to pronounce. I'm not gonna say my last name but it ends in
"-one" and is pronounced "-own" and people always say it as "ownee"
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· 9 years ago
Mine's phonetic but people still get it wrong somehow....it's exhausting.
Funnily enough, people can't pronounce my first name, either (Zoe) which should be very easy. They pronounce it 'Zo'.
Speaking of which, how do you guys pronounce my username?
Most other people say Mohrull-ee.
You see, my grandfather was born on Cyprus, and migrated to Australia. Upon arrival there, he changed his surname from Christadolou to Morrell. It wasn't until I started high school and there was another person with my first name in the class. His surname was Natoli, so everyone called me Morrelli, just to make it, I dunno, similar.
So yeah. Backstory.
People still can't pronounce or spell Italian surnames, though.
"-one" and is pronounced "-own" and people always say it as "ownee"
Funnily enough, people can't pronounce my first name, either (Zoe) which should be very easy. They pronounce it 'Zo'.