Thursday, June 5, 2025

I wasted half of my life telling people how to pronounce my name.

  


I saw this meme on Facebook and agree with it 100%! ๐Ÿ˜ฉ
It's very rare if my name ๐Ÿ“›Sidra has ever been pronounced correctly on the first try by someone. Even after I've told people how it is meant to be said, it still has been said wrong (like at one of my  graduations, I wrote my name out phonetically [Cee-dra or C-dra] and gave it to the person announcing grads and when my name was called, it was still pronounced wrong. ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿพ‍♀️) which especially irks me. ๐Ÿ˜’  

The meme has over 36k comments ๐Ÿ˜ฎ under the post, and if I could I would be in the comment section the whole day ๐Ÿง checking out all the names. ๐Ÿ˜…   


๐Ÿ“ŒHere's the post where people tell their name pronunciation ๐Ÿ˜ฑ horror stories:




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