I Gave My Baby the Wrong Name!

Katia, others don't mispronounce your name; you do. Katia is pronounced KAH TEE AH. If you choose to mispronounce it as K-SHA, I guess that is your prerogative, but you shouldn't consider that you are "correcting" their pronunciation. You are explaining that you pronounce it differently from everyone else in the know world.

Its not a matter of her being incorrect. If you've ever bothered to learn pronunciation, you'd realize that 'tia' can easily be used to make a 'sha' sound. While I know it's different, it's like saying the 'cia' in patricia shouldn't be allowed to make a 'sha' sound either. Please learn a little bit more before correcting somebody about those sorts of things. While I'm not one for naming kids 'unique' names, that just means that I wont do it to my kids. I have no say in what other parents will do for theirs. If 'Katia' is what her parents chose, how they pronounce it is not 'wrong' because it's their creation ;)

K-sha is absolutely an appropriate pronunciation for her name! My name is Stacia (pronounced STAY-sha), and all my life I've gotten Stacey, Stayseea... (think about it, inertia isn't inERsheeya...)

@Jan - actually, 'tia' can be pronounced 'sha' in the English lanuguage, as well as in Latin. For instance, MANY medical terms are spelled with 'tia' or 'sia' and pronounced 'sha' (e.g. interstitia, anesthesia, etc). Perhaps you should revisit a spelling course or two and refresh you language skills before you attack another person.

Of course "tia" can be pronounced "sha". I'm just saying that the correct pronunciation of the name is Kah ti ah. If she chooses to pronounce it another way, that's her choice, but it isn't the people pronouncing it who are incorrect; she has used an incorrect pronunciation of the name spelled the way it is spelled.

My name is Jan. If I choose to pronounce it "Jawn", that is my prerogative, but people who pronounced it "Jan" would not be incorrect. They just aren't aware that I have chosen to pronounce my name incorrectly.

Her parents didn't make up the name, Katia. That is a common name that has a common pronunciation.

At least it wasn't as ridiculous as Apple or Twig.

Sue, you do know that there are long a's and short a's (along with e's) etc that are pronounced differently... moving on
say hammer, you hear the h (huh-am-er) (exageration) (srry for the spelling)
now say honor (on-er) what do you know it's silent just like nevaeh. (according to you)

I mean seriously thats a messed up name lol, so if i've got this wrong tell me...
Neh- Ne
Vay- Vaeh

If you ask me she should have just spelt it Nehvay (article's pronounciation spelling) if she wanted the sound lol, we add the uh sound because there is an h and guess what... there are only a few silent h's in the english language (tons in spanish though). I say majority wins and if you have a problem with that then you can atleast deal with correcting the people who actually have a grasp on what that weird name should be pronounced as and don't call us idiots because we cant pronounce the name (we didn't invent the name).

ps. On behalf of everyone that needs to go to grammer school we are sorry for pronouncing Nevaeh with the uh sound.

btw I have never heard that name until now lol

Before you get on your high horse about spelling maybe you should know that both spellings of the word Judgement are considered correct. In England the "e" is almost always used. I will give you that in court documents it is not used, but there has been a push in the education system to use the "e" as a way to more stream line the spelling of the English language. Other words such as abridgement, acknowledgement, arrangement, engagement, do use an "e" with a soft "g" before -ment and it has been felt that not using the "e" in judgement is just cause for confusion. Both are listed in the Webster's Dictionary. I am not saying that I endorse either spelling, however I would not try to make someone feel small or point out their flaws over the spelling of a word that is still undecided.