Another boy with surname “Tyabji”, extremely easy to pronounce Tie-ab-gee, they called Scrabble. The joke being that it was such a long name it would score very high. Hilarious.
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I'll bet they could pronounce Tchaikovsky though.
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As a teacher, I’m afraid to say this still happens. I am constantly disappointed by how many teachers seem to have an attitude of “Well, there’s no way I could possibly say that” and so don’t even try. Sadly, kids feel they have to accept the mangled anglicisation of their names.
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Always reminds me of Uzo Aduba, who said her mother told her "If they can learn to pronounce Tchaikovsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka". This is exactly it.
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Not exclusive to ethnic-sounding names. Many teachers do it and proves they are the assholes of the instructor-class. Love, your friend, Novak (aka Noclass, Noback, Novacaine...)
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Even more fun when it's in emails and your email address is literally your name spelt out
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My surname was Baptist-so easy to say...no I got Bishop,Bapteest for Christ’s sake they’re teachers and supposed to be educating their pupils.
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The actual name I now go by is a result of the least objectionable mispronunciation of my actual name by my first teacher - I remember being too embarrassed to try to correct her again
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