So, recently my mom told me that we have been pronouncing my cousin's name incorrectly. That it's pronounce Ah-she-a and not Ai-she-a. My cousin is older than me. She's well into her 30's. I inquired as to why her mother allowed for the ENTIRE family to pronounce her name wrong and I found out that it was my fault.
It turns out that when I was younger, I had a hard time pronouncing her name, so it was changed to accommodate my inability to articulate. Interesting, don't you think?
A little child was able to change the way her cousin's name was pronounced! Here's the scary part...
WHY DIDN'T SOMEONE TELL ME?! What is so hard with correcting a child? No child is able to pronounce hard names. Heck, my step sister for many years called me Mashie. Does that mean that everyone in my family should call me Mashie? That's too much power to give to a child. If I were my cousin, I would have been upset once people started to mispronounce my name! She's about 7 years older than me so that means that at the age of 10, she went from Ah-she-a, to Ai-she-a. Didn't she fight? I would have!
It makes me smile but then again, it also makes me sad. Well not really sad, just confused...
Why wouldn't anyone correct me? Why would they change the name of their daughter just because a toddler couldn't pronounce it? I find this out 26 years later...
Insanity I tell you! Because of ONE CHILD.
Should I be happy because I have some sort of weird unspoken power in my household? Or should I pity her?
Gee whiz...How many of you would allow that to happen? If you were Ah-she-a (I'm spelling her name phonetically)? If you were her mom? Her father? Her older sister?
Good grief!
*sigh*
Unitl next time Faithful Five, etc.
Love, Peace, and Hair Grease!
1 comments:
Wow, that's special.
I had a similar problem however I was able to make his whole family change his name. This is one if my friends I've had since third grade. I would go to his house and ask for him by name. His family never said anything, heck he never said anything. One day during my junior year of highschool I was over visiting and out of nowhere I asked him why his name was spelled one way and pronounced another, that's when he told me I was pronouncing it wrong. I was floored. I seriously died laughing.
His name is Waljima. It's pronounced how it looks but all those years I was saying wall-ja-ma. I guess that's what happens in the hood ( sorry I'm watching don't be a menace) when you hear someone else say it wrong.
Your situation is extra special because the family just up and changed her name like they did on Roseanne with her sister Jackie. As it turned out her name was Marjorie but Roseanne kept saying Myjackie so they eventually setteled with Jackie.
~Harry~
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