Receiving calls and people mispronouncing your name

[dancer139]

when i get a phone call ,,, i can always tell its a telemarketer because they can't pronounce my name right.  I say no thank you and hang up  lol

If it is a real phone call I will help them  pronounce my name,,,  it  isn't that hard to pronounce 

(if you can tell,, I'm not a telemarketer fan,  I know its there job but they irritate me LOL )

[sharonpatri55]

My last name is only 5 letters and 2 syllables; and through the years countless people have beaten the heck out of the pronunciation. Patri, it is pronounced PAY-tree. One approach that has worked well in getting people to pronounce it right is by telling them it is pronounced like patriotic, but without the otic.

[sanglee]

yea i get those too, people calling and having the wrong number, especially in los angeles, there is a lot of hispanics and they dont know english too well, and i have a korean name so they mispronounce it pretty often

[thtrngng]

Actually I do not have problem if someone call and mispronounce my name , I have a problem if someone call and ask for the wrong person more than once. If I tell you that you dialed the wrong number, don't call me again thinking that you dialed the right number the second time.

[BJohnsonPP]

My first name is hard for most to pronounce. It doesn't bother me. I expect it. It can be a conversation starter. In school, when the teacher got to the J's for my last name, if they would pause for a second before saying the next name, I knew it was mine and would just raise my hand and say it for them  . They would smile and maybe chuckle a little and say "thank you". So, it's not an issue at all. I know how to deal with it and, again, I expect it.

[claysherrod]

My last name is Sherrod (pronounced SHER-ROD) Many people call me (Shar-UD) which is understandable since that name is common. The ones that crack me up though are, Sherrard, Shrierer Sherwood, and I even got a Shreveport once...lol. I don't think my name is as complicated as some think. 

[bigedshult]

I have the same thing happen when they say my last name it is spell (shult) and most of the pople want to put a(c or z) in it.

[alina6]

My name gets mis-pronounced and mis-spelled all the time. I don't think it is a big deal but I have met a number of people who have had a problem with that so I usually ask someone how they pronounce there name if I have never seen the name before.

[msmoneybags48]

I remember that I answered the phone when I formerly worked as an Accounts Technician for a not-for-profit Social Service agency in Chicago, and this man called for my co-worker, who was out on maternity leave.  He was a bill collector.  She had a complicated first name (Evermore), but we called her Eva.  Her last name was spelled Mwoyosvi, and even I had problems pronouncing her last name.  This man, when he called the first time, asked me if she was from Romania, and I told him no; she was from Zimbabwe.  He caught me one morning and went into the question and answer session.  I stopped him midway and told him, "You called for this person, I have told you she is not here, and I am not obligated to give you an explanation, because I am not the person you called for."  He agreed with that, and finally stopped calling.  When a bill collector calls your job, you have to be direct and to the point.  If you aren't the person he is looking for, you don't have to deal with that;  just hang up or tell him to get lost.

[kqa]

Not so much my name but many people used to mispronounce my son's name, Sean.  I never understood that.  LOL

[sharonpatri55]

When I get calls from people I don't know (mainly telemarketers) they not only manage to mispronounce my last name every time, just about everything else they say to me is not too legible because they are most likely not calling from anywhere in this country.

[linderlizzie]

First of all, yes. When I married I went from two syllables to three. And although the name is spelled phonetically, people can't pronounce it very well. And they NEVER can spell it. Having to always spell your name is a minor irritation, but it gets old. 

Secondly, whenever I answer my home landline phone, I say hello, and if no one responds in two seconds or so, I just hang up. That's because I know it is a telemarketer, since they have to wait to see if the phone has been picked up and answered before they speak.

Now, I do not have anything against telemarketers, since I know they are only doing their jobs. It's the companies that think this is a good marketing tool that infuriate me. Plus, telemarketing calls are the only phone calls I get on my landline phone. Not only that, it's usually a dozen or so calls per day. That's ridiculous!

Now I understand why people are getting rid of their landline phones. I just can't bear to do it yet since I don't pay too much for it. It's through CUB, and AT&T has to provide it if you ask for it. Very economical.

[meg0694]

I hate when people hear my name and think I'm a Mr.  Lol!

[kerseycarol]

some time its funny when people mispronounce your name but don't say theirs right and it a problem  right.

[iimouto]

My last name is pretty hard to say. I remember one time a telemarketer called us and said our name wrong. I guess she just made up her own pronunciation for our name because my dad started yelling at her and telling her to do her research properly if she was going to try to sell us something.