Woman Says Stranger 'Ruined Her Daughter's Life' for Telling Her She Was Pronouncing Her Name Wrong

[jemgirl90]

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/1845851067671531921Read more... )

Comments

[itsme_eloise]

but it's her own name, so it's pronounced however she decides...?

[genbu_no_miko24]

Yeah but going forward if you're gonna go into telling the origin of the name then don't be surprised when someone who knows more tells you it's off.

[mhfromnh]

except it's really Gráinne not Grain. and the Irish pronunciation is better.

[nigelwitthebrie]

Agreed the Irish pronunciation sounds so much prettier….whereas the pronunciation of grain is I think of rice and it makes me hungry.

[angriest_girl]

She’s more embarrassed about this than going around calling her kid Grain for years.

There wasn’t one person in the family she could have checked pronunciation with before naming a baby after Grandma?

[itscaelsday]

She could have even Googled it 😂

[alienclit]

She saved that child from being named GRAIN. Her mom should be grateful.

[skyler_white_yo]

I feel bad for the mom being embarrassed. At the same time the mom should have looked up the pronunciation.

[fffireburns]

Right? I checked the source to see how old the kid was, OP said around 2. We had Al Gore's internet in our pockets 2-3 years ago!! How as an American can you give your kid an Irish name without googling it first. Assuming it even happened at all, because reddit lol.

[kiarrith]

...2? i thought it was gonna be like 13 year old who might actually be embarrassed. a 2 year old wont care or remember. if it happened, the mom was just projecting.

[blazingeternity]

Just 2? Then it's quite easy to just start pronouncing her name properly now (if the parents are interested in doing so). From the mother's reaction, it sounded as if the daughter was already in school, with tons of social relationships...

[scriptedending]

poor Grain is getting embarrassed on a global scale now!! lol