How Do You Pronounce Your Name?

[popcornbird]

Originally posted by Cataholic
Joe-hawn-ah. Johanna. Not simple. Really not simple. Mispronounced ALL the time. Jo-ANNA, Jo-hanna, Jill Hanna (very often, which surprises me). About 10% call me Joh....

I can always tell if someone is a friend of mine by the way they pronounce my name (over the phone....in person, I recognize my friends, usually).

Joe-hawn-ah??? Really? I always thought it was pronounced *Joe-hanna*. I know a girl named Johanna at school, and that's how she pronounces it, so I assumed your's would be the same way. From now on, I'll have to call you *Joe-hawn-ah*. Does the pronounciation have to do with what part of the country you're from? Everyone here pronounces it as *Joe-hanna*.