Ok. Wine or ween?

[Tralfaz]

:weinkhan:

 

[Mark Wein]

 

[BoomBoomBigelow]

It's just a pseudonym anyway. A nom de plume. His real name is actually Samuel Lemons.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

 

[bsman]

I feel for you. My last name has 13 letters and contains a number of letter clusters that make perfect sense in West Frisian, but make little sense in English. You should see the attempts I get when people get to the 'ghuis' part in the middle of my name. Correct pronunciation makes the g silent, and the i modifies the U to a long U sound like in tube, and the S becomes a very hard S, but not quite a Z sound.

Pretty bizarre that it simply translate to 'son of the counting house'.

Funny that Wein is German for wine, but is pronounced WEEN. I would guess the Germanic pronunciation would sound more like VINE.

"To pronounce it correctly, I would have to pull out your tongue."

 

[Jeremy]

My last name is super fucking easy and people still fuck it up from time to time. I mean, in what fucked up (English speaking) place is "Kitt" pronounced "kite?!"

 

[angry tele]

Yeah, but isn't it really "Porsh-ah", not "Porsh"?

the brits say
JagYOUare

even though im pretty sure its a spanish word

 

[Tig]

And "Fronk-en-steen".

 

[frunobulax]

it's pronounced Throat-wobblerMangrove

 

[el diablo]

I feel for you. My last name has 13 letters and contains a number of letter clusters that make perfect sense in West Frisian, but make little sense in English. You should see the attempts I get when people get to the 'ghuis' part in the middle of my name. Correct pronunciation makes the g silent, and the i modifies the U to a long U sound like in tube, and the S becomes a very hard S, but not quite a Z sound.

So basically your name has a lot of umlauts and sounds like a punctured concertina.

 

[Theodore]

I would guess the Germanic pronunciation would sound more like VINE.

It does.

Unless this is an ultra-dry joke.

 

[Theodore]

WEEN.

I've had a lifetime of people telling me my name is pronounced wrong. Once I told a person "It's only spelled "Wein", its actually pronounced "go-fuck-yourself".

Take it easy, Wee-an!

 

[wok]

When I was a kid, other kids would say "Nikes." One syllable. That also drove me insane.

"What's that writing mean … "Neekay" … what is that, some sort of Injun talk or something?"

 

[Grave Bomber]

It still surprises me that people mispronounce my surname. It's pronounced exactly as it's spelled, but I get everything from maude-lin to mal-doon to mul-din.

 

[Tig]

Anyone in the Western hemisphere who can't pronounce my simple last name earns a "go-fuck-yourself".

 

[lesly]

Ween!!!

 

[baimun]

"What's that writing mean … "Neekay" … what is that, some sort of Injun talk or something?"

 

[baimun]

Anyone in the Western hemisphere who can't pronounce my simple last name earns a "go-fuck-yourself".

Are you pining for the fjords?

 

[Tig]

Are you pining for the fjords?

 

[OGG]

Everyone fucks up both of my names.

They pronounce Roderick as Row Derrick, and Moyes (sounds like "noise" as Mow Yes, Moy Yez, and quite often, Moyers... even had a few people hand me back paperwork and telling me I forgot to put the R in Moyers.

Assholes.

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