Quote Originally Posted by Bladestorm View Post
Names are a funny thing and people can get quite personally offended by mispronunciation.

The photographer of my wedding MANY moons ago was a guy from Queensland. and upon meeting him I said "Hi Grant".
As a Kiwi we normally say the name as Gr-aunt and thus that is how I pronounced it.
He gave me the most horrible frown and said: "My name is Gr-ANT!".

It was quite an unnatural pronunciation for me but I tried my best to remember when I met him to force the Aussie accent out. It remains with me as probably the first time I encountered someone who was VERY particular about their name pronunciation.
Interesting there, as my first assumption seeing the name "Grant" would be "Gr-aunt " as well. A bit immature of him to frown and be all grumpy at what is possibly a pretty common situation.

I always pronounce dance as "Darnce" as opposed to "dants" and often got teased (friendliy like) by my friends for saying "yoh-gurt" instead of "yoe-gurt."

But this name talk reminds me of an episode of the Next Generation where the old doctor lady calls Data "Darta" and Data asks her why she calls him Darta when his name is Dayta. At that moment, I was all like
"that makes sense, so if an American is call Grant, he's probably not a Grarnt"