Ha!
But so not nearly as many who spell Jack's name "O'Conner" and Jim's "Carmichael"....
Will say that my freshman history-class teacher in high school pronounced my name "Bar-NESS" from the very beginning. He was also one of those teachers, not uncommon back then, who called his students "Miss Smith" or "Mister Jones" rather than by their first name. I tried to correct him, but he didn't get it.
In May, a couple weeks before summer vacation started, he overheard one of the other students calling me "BARS-ness." He was somewhat startled, and said something. Several of the other students told him yeah, that was my name.
Then he asked why nobody had ever told him before, and one girl said, "We DID! But you never noticed...."
