Comments on: Random Poll: Do you pronounce your last name the way it’s spelled or the way it’s supposed to sound?

By: DebraRincon

DebraRincon — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 02:55:11 +0000

I would like to understand more about the chinese. I am Native American Tribal member. I think that we are sort of alike in some ways, we are very personal people like the chinese. Thanks. I just found out how to write my name in Chinese. I LIKE IT alot, I would like to learn to write in chinese too.

By: Jinho

Jinho — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:12:53 +0000

I don’t understand:
JUN
It’s rather easy to say.
But can anybody say it?
No.
June, Jung, Yun, Yung….Yoon? How do they get Yoon? Or anything with a Y for that matter?
And my first name.
It is a Korean name as well. It is rather easy. I am not saying that just because I am Korean and can pronnounce it properly, but when I look from another educated person’s point of view, it IS easy!
I always manage to get crazy renditions of my name every semester and year when new classes begin.
I honestly don’t understand.
It’s as if the whole non-Asian population thinks that there is some magic involved with pronouncing Asian names. I understand if it was more complicated such as a Korean or Chinese name with X’s for example, but mine is JUN!
How hard can that be?
Apparently extremely.

By: Jinho

Jinho — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:12:00 +0000

By: ninaharuno

ninaharuno — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:05:19 +0000

Wow, you have the last name 'Ngo' too? I have that last name, and it's always so irritating having to remind people on how to say your own last name. They say things like 'no' or 'nose' or even 'nuh-go' too. So far, only my best friend can say my last name but it took her two years.

By: ninaharuno

ninaharuno — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:05:19 +0000

By: VivianN

VivianN — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 14:55:24 +0000

Jeez, you have no idea how annoying it is to hear people say “win” or “nuh/gwin.” My last name is Nguyen, I very common one I guess. It's not pronounced that way. And then I was looking through some random forum at some random website, and this guy said there's to many -ng at vietnamese names like Ngo or Nguyen. S/He's like, -ng is pronounced weh and that makes Nguyen, “wehn.” FAIL! I guess the reason why people can't say vietnamese names are because there's accents or stressed or something like that. Nguyen has a -ee kind of sound into it. Weeng sort of. -ee is stressed? My grammar is so bad and yet, I'm passing my English classes – _ – I stopped fixing people's mistakes since first grade. Let the principal think she's pronouncing right. I bet you she still think she is.

By: strayfarce

strayfarce — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:37:57 +0000

I always asked someone if I was pronouncing a non-common name correctly just to make sure I was being respectful of their family name. What always gets me (but I always let it go) is that anytime someone asks how to spell my name they always say “with an e or an ie?” It's neither. Tracy, just Y. I mean, that's the common spelling. At least it always was when I was growing up.

By: moye

moye — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:38:30 +0000

That's just like my first name (the whole eh vs. yeh vs. ee thing)