Arg

[kingshearte]

Today, I had a guy ask me for helping finding a book by (and I'm going to attempt to write this phonetically) Alexander DUMM-ess.

I wanted to cry.

Comments

[dizmo]

I had a mother coming in once looking for a book assigned to her son for school. It was, as she put it... "Night, by Ee-lee Weasel."

[fuunsaiki]

I'll bite. What was it really?

[dizmo]

No, it was Night, but the pronunciation of Elie Wiesel made me doubletake. XD

[fuunsaiki]

Ahhh! Not one I'm familiar with, which is GOOD, 'cos otherwise that would have been a SERIOUS bastardisation. :3

[marlatiara]

All I could think of was:

[fuunsaiki]

I was thinking more this myself:

[thatsmydog]

i thought the same thing. maybe he did it deliberately. XD

[mythgene]

Eeeeek! Look on the bright side. At least he didn't ask for a book by Alexander Dumbass.

[muzaken]

People *always* fuck up his name!! Seriously that has happened to me about a dozen times!

[palebythesea]

Eh, I dunno. I guess as someone with a chronically mispronounced surname of Germanic origin, those sorts of things don't bother me so much. Especially with authors like Dumas or the other mention of Wiesel, the pronunciations or accenting isn't so readily apparent. Often I find myself going to the internet to seek out pronunciations of words I've only read before, and have probably said to myself incorrectly a million times in my head. It's embarrassing enough to verbalize it incorrectly in public without, ahem, someone thinking you a dumbass for it.