Nursery staff all mispronounce her name - should I correct them? - Page 3

emilyjade · Apr 6th, 2012, 15:11 PM

One lady at nursery says DS' name wrong but all the rest are fine so I just leave it. If the kids and staff were saying it though I would correct them x

suzib76 · Apr 7th, 2012, 04:13 AM

oh i would correct them without a doubt, it wont just be the staff but all her wee freinds and friends parents etc calling her the wrong name, definately nip it in the bud or it could stick with her through all her school years!

pinksapphire · Apr 7th, 2012, 04:27 AM

I would correct them. My daughters name is Emilia and nursery staff always write it as Amelia or Emelia. Now that shes learning to spell her name we had to speak to them as we didn't want her to learn to spell her name incorrectly.

mumum · Apr 7th, 2012, 04:36 AM

İ will probably have the same problem.. when we go docs etc both LOs names get mis-spelt or pronounced wrong! They have turkish names- a ydin (eye-dun) and Esma but we a always get aiden and esmay lol

holly2234 · Apr 7th, 2012, 09:47 AM

I would correct them. People always say our last name wrong but i dont bother so much with that because its not said as much.

KayBea · Apr 8th, 2012, 05:11 AM

i would correct them too,
OHs (ex OH now) family call her mango because they cant pronounce her name... its not that friggin difficult!!! they dont even try. her names Xanthia btw (pronounced Zanthia)...
its really not hard!!!!!!

they dont even try & it really gets to me so much to the point i stopped taking her to see them for a few weeks! xx

eva2010 · Apr 8th, 2012, 06:19 AM

I'd correct them hun! I had to do the same at my LOs nursery a few times. Even though I'd written the pronounciation and repeated it a good few times the staff still didn't say it right, my LO has an irish name and the silent letters confused them. They were fine about me correcting them, in fact they looked like they felt a bit bad about it!

Aunty E · Apr 8th, 2012, 07:06 AM

Imogen thinks her name is pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable, so i-MO-gen, because thats what they say at her childminder (they're all Bulgarian). It's cute, but we sound like we're taking the P when we shout for her in the park.

tinybutterfly · Apr 9th, 2012, 07:27 AM

i worked in day care and i've seen some children with names that were hard to pronounce,
it were names we didn't know to begin with and with troat sounds we don't have in our own language.
eventually the parents gave up on us ever being able to pronounce it correctly, but i tried really hard and i was pretty convinced i said it right

i even have it with a friend of mine now, she will say her name and if i repeat it i THINK i repeat it perfectly, yet she says "nooooo, not xxx, it's xxx"
honestly, i don't hear the difference lol
it's like saying "it's not emma, it's emma" haha

if it's a name that is normally not hard to pronounce, even if it isn't english, i'd definatly speak up

Lara310809 · Apr 9th, 2012, 09:00 AM

DEFINITELY correct them; it doesn't matter how long it's been. You don't want her thinkig it's pronounced the wrong way, or the pronounciation following her through life.

Apr 6th, 2012, 15:11 PM	#21
emilyjade Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: notts uk Posts: 8,996	One lady at nursery says DS' name wrong but all the rest are fine so I just leave it. If the kids and staff were saying it though I would correct them x

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Apr 7th, 2012, 04:13 AM	#22
suzib76 Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: x scotland x Posts: 6,663	oh i would correct them without a doubt, it wont just be the staff but all her wee freinds and friends parents etc calling her the wrong name, definately nip it in the bud or it could stick with her through all her school years!

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Apr 7th, 2012, 04:27 AM	#23
pinksapphire Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: UK Posts: 299	I would correct them. My daughters name is Emilia and nursery staff always write it as Amelia or Emelia. Now that shes learning to spell her name we had to speak to them as we didn't want her to learn to spell her name incorrectly.

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mumum Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: london Posts: 87	İ will probably have the same problem.. when we go docs etc both LOs names get mis-spelt or pronounced wrong! They have turkish names- a ydin (eye-dun) and Esma but we a always get aiden and esmay lol

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Apr 7th, 2012, 09:47 AM	#25
holly2234 Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: New York Posts: 5,604	I would correct them. People always say our last name wrong but i dont bother so much with that because its not said as much.

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KayBea Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Aldershot, Hampshire, UK Posts: 5,413	i would correct them too, OHs (ex OH now) family call her mango because they cant pronounce her name... its not that friggin difficult!!! they dont even try. her names Xanthia btw (pronounced Zanthia)... its really not hard!!!!!! they dont even try & it really gets to me so much to the point i stopped taking her to see them for a few weeks! xx
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Apr 8th, 2012, 06:19 AM	#27
eva2010 Mum (Mom) Active BnB Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: london Posts: 297	I'd correct them hun! I had to do the same at my LOs nursery a few times. Even though I'd written the pronounciation and repeated it a good few times the staff still didn't say it right, my LO has an irish name and the silent letters confused them. They were fine about me correcting them, in fact they looked like they felt a bit bad about it!

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Apr 8th, 2012, 07:06 AM	#28
Aunty E Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: London Posts: 4,505	Imogen thinks her name is pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable, so i-MO-gen, because thats what they say at her childminder (they're all Bulgarian). It's cute, but we sound like we're taking the P when we shout for her in the park.

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Apr 9th, 2012, 07:27 AM	#29
tinybutterfly Trying to conceive (TTC) BnB Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 3,922	i worked in day care and i've seen some children with names that were hard to pronounce, it were names we didn't know to begin with and with troat sounds we don't have in our own language. eventually the parents gave up on us ever being able to pronounce it correctly, but i tried really hard and i was pretty convinced i said it right i even have it with a friend of mine now, she will say her name and if i repeat it i THINK i repeat it perfectly, yet she says "nooooo, not xxx, it's xxx" honestly, i don't hear the difference lol it's like saying "it's not emma, it's emma" haha if it's a name that is normally not hard to pronounce, even if it isn't english, i'd definatly speak up

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Lara310809 Mum (Mom) BnB Addict Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Gibraltar Posts: 7,826	DEFINITELY correct them; it doesn't matter how long it's been. You don't want her thinkig it's pronounced the wrong way, or the pronounciation following her through life.

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