Woman Says Stranger 'Ruined Her Daughter's Life' for Telling Her She Was Pronouncing Her Name Wrong
Woman Says Stranger 'Ruined Her Daughter's Life' for Telling Her She Was Pronouncing Her Own Name Wrong https://t.co/dCLXCQ9Jnx
- People (@people) October 14, 2024
Source:https://twitter.com/people/status/1845851067671531921
-On an anonymous post shared to Reddit, the woman writes that she lives in the U.K., and recently started up a conversation with an American mother traveling with her child.
"The mother mentioned that her daughter's name was 'Grain' so I assumed for a while that she was another mother who wanted something 'special' to call her child. I remarked that it was a unique name and that I'd never met anyone called Grain before," the woman writes.
That's when the child said she was named after her great-grandmother and that the name is an Irish one."At this point, the alarm bells are ringing in my head because I've realized that the kid is called Gráinne (generally pronounced as Gro-nyuh, or thereabouts.),"
In an attempt to be tactful, the woman replied to the mom, "an old-school name and a more modern pronunciation. I think that's a great way to pick names."When the child's mom asked what she meant, the woman responded, "Well in Ireland, they typically pronounce it like 'Gro-nyuh.' "
"Her face went red and [she] said that I shouldn't have said that the pronunciation was wrong in front of the kid because now she's going to grow up knowing that her name is wrong and feel bad about it," the poster continued. "I apologized for causing offense and restated that it's a lovely name in both ways and a fantastic nod to her heritage."