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How do you pronounce "Johann"??

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Why is it that SOOO many people mispronounce my name?? are there really that many ignorant people in the US??

when people call me off lists, or when i get calls from my bank or anything where it's someone that doesnt' know me personally 95 times out of 100 they pronounce it with a "J" sound and not a "Y" sound.

is it really possible that 95% of the people have NEVER heard of the composer, JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH??

Are they really truly that ignorant?
 
Originally posted by: ggavinmoss
Yo-Hawn.

-geoff
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you'd be surprised at how many people pronounce it Jo - Ann and they always ask for a Miss Jo-Ann Lee, even when the form was marked MALE or Mr.

i seriously cannot believe HOW many people in AMERICA don't know the name Johann.
 
I know how to pronounce it, but then again I've been heavily exposed to classical music. Most people would assume a "J" sound.
 
Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis
My name is Johann too. People are stupid.
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nice to meet you JoAnn. 🙂

in my case it's doubly weird because I'm Korean. 🙂

the name was given to me by my father and it's really a bible name as the name John appears in the greek as Johann and was transliterated into the Korean bible as JoHann. 🙂
 
How many people that have never taken spanish know that ll's put together sound like a "y". Or, how about how to properly pronounce trilling rr's ?

It's all in what you are accustomed to. Many people have probably familial with the name "Bach", but probably have never seen his full name spelled out.

Johann is not a common name in the US.
 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
How many people that have never taken spanish know that ll's put together sound like a "y". Or, how about how to properly pronounce trilling rr's ?

It's all in what you are accustomed to. Many people have probably familial with the name "Bach", but probably have never seen his full name spelled out.

Johann is not a common name in the US.
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fine, use that excuse, but if you are a CSR and you mispronounce my name and I correct you and YOU STILL mispronounce my name, i'm going to hang up on you.
 
Per our other discussion, one advantage of having a hard to prounounce name is that you can recognize telemarketers instantly. I always tell them "If you can't pronounce my name, you're more than likely trying to sell me something, and I'm not interested" then I hang up.
 
Originally posted by: yayo
Jo+Ann
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figures you would.
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ignorant rednecks in general annoy me. 😉
 
Just be grateful your last name isn't Nguyen. Mine isn't, but the people who lived in our place before us had that last name. The telemarketers butchered it badly! 🙂
 
On borderline spelling/pronunciation names, I always pronounce it with a silenced, hybridized version of the questionable syllable.

Why? Because there's always some whackjob parent that names their kid with some fscked up spelling for some common name (Jehnefer anybody?) or some fscked up pronunciation of a name that SHOULD be well known like Johann = Yo-hawn. I've met a "Jo-hawn" before.

So, assuming this thread had never occured, you would be "*mumble*-hawn"
 
Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Just be grateful your last name isn't Nguyen. Mine isn't, but the people who lived in our place before us had that last name. The telemarketers butchered it badly! 🙂
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i would mispronounce it, there is no frame of reference and it really doesn't make sense phonetically.

but JOHANN is a very well known name. Johann Sebastian BACH. ONLY uneducated people would NOT know that name.
 
This reminds me - I need to find Neutzel. His first name is Dan. Yet we all call him Neutzel. Yeah. This place is weird.
 
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