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Originally posted by gilroynewball:
I had a guy doing exhaust work on my mom's MitsuBISHI (emphasis on BISHI), only to have the guy tell me it's a MitsuBITSY.
My stepdad says it that way too.
Went to AutoZone with him a few weeks ago to buy rotors for my moms Galant, and he got to the counter and said I need rotors for a 2002 MitsuBITSY Galant. I walked away and looked at some other stuff I needed. 
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Originally posted by mean'tour:
Originally posted by Rouar:
Originally posted by Bronco_SVT:
No kidding. It's like someone else telling you how to pronounce your own last name (which actually happened to me at a local Little Caesars Pizza place; figures, lol).
Do elaborate - I've gotta hear this. My own last name is mispronounced and misspelled more often than not, but at least I've never been told I'm wrong!
I'd like to hear that story as well. My last name is not that unusual or uncommon it is just often mispronounced. If you pronounce it correctly to include all the letters (so it will be spelled correctly) no one knows what you are talking about. I've been corrected (kinda) before as well.
It's Thornton. But everyone pronounces it "Thorton". I usually pronounce it "ThorNton" and have had people say "what", then I repeat, and they "Oh, Thorton".
Good luck finding a Thorton in the phone book. I've tried and have never run across that name before.
is that something like how people pronounce massachusetts? or government?
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Originally posted by mean'tour:
Good luck finding a Thorton in the phone book. I've tried and have never run across that name before.
There's a Peter Thorton in Pheonix AZ. He's Macguyver's boss and he punches with both hands folded.
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I was working with a Verizon tech over the phone once, worst support call of my life (I'm an IT manager for a Managed Services co.).
I asked her to open a support ticket, in my name, and I began spelling out my name. At which point she barks at me "I can spell it."
So I spell it out for her again-
d-o-n-o-g-h-u-e.
Yeah, she had it wrong.
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interesting...my fiancees cousins are Thorntons.
my name couldnt be more simple..Gluck
it is pronounced exactly as its spelled and spelled exactly how its pronounced.
yet everybody spells it and says it wrong!
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Me: Er...It was made by Fords SPECIAL Vehicle Team?
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Originally posted by ElKy:
my name couldnt be more simple..Gluck
it is pronounced exactly as its spelled and spelled exactly how its pronounced.
yet everybody spells it and says it wrong!
lol remember this
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Originally posted by loggerbomb:
is that something like how people pronounce massachusetts? or government?
What's wrong with "Massachusetts"? It's phonetic. Nonlocals mispronounce Worcester all the time (it's WOOSTER, not WOR-CHES-TER) but I never heard the state done wrong.
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i have called ford dealers (where i foolishly expect people to know something at all about fords) and when they ask me what kind of car i have i tell them it is a svt contour to which they respond, "4 or 6 cylinder?" i say, "it is a svt." they counter with, "4 or 6 cylinder" at which point i give in and tell them. i had one person come up to me in a parking lot and seriously ask me how i liked driving the new fusion while i was sitting in my tour.
my last name is very simple to prounce for anybody who has learned to read and speak english so it comes as no suprise to me that most people of all ethnicities mispronounce it. it sounds just like veils but is usually pronounced val-lez. and just to top it off, all through high school administrators would look at my light brown almost blonde hair, blue eyes, light skin and irish features and start speaking to me in spanish when meeting me for the first time. vales is the name.
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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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