From Charlize Theron to Ralph Fiennes: The celebrity names we’re all mispronouncing

[walkintowalls99]

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[qween_frostine]

I thought everyone knew it was "Rafe"?

[asuka4eva]

Eh? I thought it was Ralf - that's how is pronounced it in Spanish.

[violue]

lol i didnt

[redsprings]

He's only brought it up on literally every talk show he's been on.

[xtinkerbellax]

What season did they change the pronunciation?

[fablevolcom]

yet people still say jewdice

[kidviciousdonna]

because they did originally

[violue]

I'm not sure I'm ready to have my world rocked by reading everything I'm pronouncing wrong in my head.

Although I already know Saoirse isn't "Say-oh-rise" like I always read it in my head. It doesn't even make phonetic sense, I don't know how I ended up reading it that way.

[scriptedending]

this is like me and "her-me-own" from Harry Potter before they started making the movies. Makes no sense reading it, but that's how I read it.

[shieraseastar]

???? it's not????

[blokesomething]

Fellow American ONTDers with foreign names, do y'all pronounce it the way it is originally intented or in an english sounding way?

[aprilfunk]

bastardized for everyone else. they still fuck it up anyway tho

[evillemmons]

[maebytonight]

Same here

[saikaro_x]

I love how Irish names are spelled.

[thiscantbesoy]

I like how they are spelled but not often how they are pronounced. I think the name Siobhan is so pretty, but it's pronounced Shuh-VON, which is like so 1980s permed hair blue eyeshadow.

Same with Saoirse, although "seer-sha" isn't all that bad.

[suzycat]

Yeah, pretty Celtic Twilight magickal name of many letters turns out to be guttural and short, sorry 'bout that.

I often wonder how people think these names are pronounced. See oh ban? Say or see? Not pretty.

Though I admit Dee Oh Dree sounds prettier than Durdruh.