NightDragon250 t1_j4ouwv6 wrote
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no i know plenty of people that got a name from their parents because "it looked so pretty", or "i like the way it sounded"(when they never heard it but sounded it out and liked that.) i went to school with a girl named Siobhan, and she and her parents pronounced it See-obe-han. i had to tell her, in highschool, that it was shiv-on.
raz0rflea t1_j4ovkm3 wrote
By high school she's calling herself Seeobean or whatever because that's what she wants to be called...is it weird? Yes. Is it not how it's normally pronounced? Yes. But it's still her name she's had from the time she was born, you just gotta adapt to it at this point.
NightDragon250 t1_j4ox40h wrote
actually she hated see-obe-han. when i showed her how it was an irish name pronounced shiv-on she was ecstatic, her mom not so much.
orosoros t1_j4p0n7x wrote
That's so sweet! She got a fresh name without the bureaucratic hassle of changing it
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