{"id":561,"date":"2026-01-16T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/?p=561"},"modified":"2026-01-16T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:15:00","slug":"name-pronunciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/name-pronunciation\/","title":{"rendered":"Name Pronunciation"},"content":{"rendered":"My boss for 5 years was named Jonathan. I called him &#8220;Jon&#8221; all those years.  It wasn&#8217;t until my last month in that job that I realized that he always called himself &#8220;Jonathan&#8221;. I don&#8217;t remember if I had learned the dimunitive from others or if I had just made an assumption. That embarrassing memory drives me to pay close attention to how new coworkers say their name when they first introduce themselves.<br \/><br \/>People don&#8217;t say their own name nearly as often as other people say it. When you join an organization, you generally learn everyone&#8217;s name from how other people refer to them. As a result, it&#8217;s easy for a mispronunciation, if not corrected by the name owner, to be perpetuated and strengthened with each new member who learns it incorrectly. I&#8217;ve been in multiple teams where some pretty egregious mispronunciations had become ingrained. It&#8217;s probably compounded by the unfamiliar cultural origins of names in a diverse organization.<br \/><br \/>Learn from my mistake. Be skeptical of how other people say a name and pay close attention when someone says their own name. And there&#8217;s no shame in confirming pronunciation when there&#8217;s any doubt.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My boss for 5 years was named Jonathan. I called him &#8220;Jon&#8221; all those years. It wasn&#8217;t until my last month in that job that I realized that he always called himself &#8220;Jonathan&#8221;. I don&#8217;t remember if I had learned the dimunitive from others or if I had just made an assumption. That embarrassing memory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":562,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeremystein.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}