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12:16 pm
October 27, 2010
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It's pretty common for people/families to come over to America and either change the spelling or pronunciation of ther name. My great grand parents changed their last name from Mueller to Miller when they emigrated from Hungrary.
3:23 pm
May 24, 2010
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Alie said:
It's pretty common for people/families to come over to America and either change the spelling or pronunciation of ther name. My great grand parents changed their last name from Mueller to Miller when they emigrated from Hungrary.
Such a small world…
3:28 pm
October 27, 2010
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halaci said:
Alie said:
It's pretty common for people/families to come over to America and either change the spelling or pronunciation of ther name. My great grand parents changed their last name from Mueller to Miller when they emigrated from Hungrary.
Such a small world…
How is that?
3:32 pm
May 24, 2010
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Alie said:
halaci said:
Alie said:
It's pretty common for people/families to come over to America and either change the spelling or pronunciation of ther name. My great grand parents changed their last name from Mueller to Miller when they emigrated from Hungrary.
Such a small world…
How is that?
I'm from Hungary
12:08 pm
October 4, 2010
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Honestly I think her name is AWSOME. It's all foreign and really cool. I kinda wish my mom named Stana. Actually scrape that I REALLY wanted my mom to name me Stana
12:14 pm
October 4, 2010
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I mean named ME Stana sorry again im kinda worn out im livin in the Philippines right now and there is a HUGE time difference is 1 in the morning here and Im just doing this cuz I like it and it kills time
6:13 pm
October 28, 2011
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I like her name and I'm glad she didn't allowed people to pronounce it wrong,and I find hard to believe that her parents give up so easy on "ch" in their surname when they already named their kids old Yugoslavian names
9:13 am
September 27, 2011
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maybe they didn't want their kids to have to spell both their given and family name? My first name has an unusual spelling so I always have to spell it and it annoys me to no end, or people pronounce it wrong because they don't know how. When I got married I changed my family name and even though it's not a strange name 95% of the people who hear it will misunderstand it. So now I have to say "My name is xy wit xy and my family name is xy with a K like in xy". I hate that.
7:50 pm
January 5, 2010
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In the US, it's pretty tough to get people to pronounce a name in a way other than the way it LOOKS like it should be pronounced. I suspect her family, or Stana herself, got tired of correcting people and decided to live with it. And I think her first name is very pretty.
5:50 am
June 3, 2009
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That's the most probable, getting tired of correcting people all the time and deciding to live with it. But it's really great that some of her cast mates are willing to learn the correct pronounciation of her surname – first Ruben Santiago-Hudson and now Jon Huertas 
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7:19 am
April 19, 2011
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KalliopePL said:
That's the most probable, getting tired of correcting people all the time and deciding to live with it. But it's really great that some of her cast mates are willing to learn the correct pronounciation of her surname – first Ruben Santiago-Hudson and now Jon Huertas
Because they know how it feels!! I can imagine at least Jon having to pronounce his name for many people.
8:52 pm
January 5, 2010
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Personally, I've been called Kirsten so many times in my life that it no longer bothers me and I just tell people "I've been called worse." (my real name is Kristen) So eventually, I guess they just got used to the "Katick" pronunciation instead of the "Katich".
2:03 pm
September 5, 2009
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Actually, I believe I read somewhere (a long time ago) that when Stana's parents moved to the greater Chicago area (which was when she was a toddler), her parents already had relatives named Katic in the area. At least I know that there are several related Katic's in that general area of Northern Illinois. So, it's likely her parents went along with the pronunciation of the other Katics in the area since they were related.
8:20 pm
December 21, 2011
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My surname is Croatian. Like you guys living in the States, I live in Australia and getting people to pronounce your name properly is a nightmare. It's easier to go with the simplified pronunciation. My name is a little harder to pronounce than Katic, it's Vitaljich which of course has a silent J. We pronounce it Vi-ta-litch but the Croatian pronunciation is something like Vis-a-lick. One of my uncles has actually dropped the J from the spelling to make it easier again as quite honestly most people see it and stop dead in their tracks and just call out your first name(luckily my first name isn't common either so I don't get confused with anyone else). I always spell it for people straight up too as you know I'll get asked. It's really annoying but eventually you just get used to it because it's not going to change. I always joke I'm going to marry someone with the surname of Smith or Jones just so I can stop spelling my name out
11:38 pm
October 12, 2011
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One branch of my ancestors immigrated from Germany around the time of the 7-Years War, settled in Pennsylvania, and shortly after the American Revolution, changed the spelling of their name from Gülcher to Gilger. I speculate that they didn't want to be taken for Hessian mercenaries, as well as the name would have been mis-pronounced as Gulcher, as in "dry-gulcher." They chose a spelling that most nearly matched the phonetic pronunciation they wanted and adopted their new name with their new country.
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