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* "The Wild Thing" Rockelle Vaughn is ''not'' ratchet! [[InsultBackfire She's "ratchay"]], accent over the è!

* Composer Music/RichardWagner's name is pronounced "REE-card VAHG-ner".

* Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams insisted on the traditional English pronunciation of his first name, which is "RAFE" (rhymes with "safe"). According to his wife Ursula, he would be infuriated if people pronounced it any other way.

[[caption-width-right:286:It's really pronounced "''fra''-jull"... or is it "fra-''jye''-ul"?]]

* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', Bunnie's last name "Rabbot" was always referenced by her [[UnwillingRoboticisation cybernetic limbs]]. However, over 200 issues later, it was revealed to be her actual family name, pronounced "Ra-BEUX", by her uncle Beauregard.

* In the US, the name Anthony is pronounced "An-thony" whereas outside it, it's pronounced "Antony". Many people in the UK have no idea of this, resulting in people such as Anthony Kiedis of Music/RedHotChiliPeppers correcting UK interviewers on the pronunciation of his name.

** Quite a few names are mispronounced in the English dub made by Funimation. For example, Goku (pronounced "GO-koo") in the dub, is actually pronounced "go-KOO". Saiyan is pronounced "say-an" in the dub, despite the actual pronunciation being "sigh-ya" (similar to the word "cyan", but the "a" is pronounced differently). One more infamous example among fans was the Kaio-Ken being mispronounced in almost every dub as "K.O. Ken" rather than "keye-oh ken" (as the attack is named after the character King Kai); this error is eventually amended in the dub of ''Anime/DragonBallKai'', fittingly enough.

Usually the "high-class pronunciation" uses French pronunciation, [[RealityIsUnrealistic with varying accuracy]]. Today this is probably because EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench and as we all know sexy people can't be made fun of. The original reason for this is likely because from the 17th Century all the way until the mid 20th century, French was considered the CommonTongue of European diplomacy.[[note]]Also, the Norman Conquest in the 11th century meant that a substantial fraction of the English nobility ''did'' have French (well, Norman, so French''ish'') names and ancestors who spoke French. This also established a certain "rich French conquerors" vs. "common English conquered" tradition in the languages as they combined towards modern English.[[/note]]

* In ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'', Bunnie's last name "Rabbot" was always referenced by her [[UnwillingRoboticisation cybernetic limbs]]. However, over 200 issues later, it was [[retcon revealed]] to be her actual family name, pronounced "Ra-BEUX", by her uncle Beaurigard.

* In ''Fanfic/PokemonOpalAndGarnet,'' Kaylie's Touceet Clopin (named after [[Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame that Clopin]]) gets his name continually mispronounced as "klop-pin," with English pronunciation. Clopin is always quick to correct them with the (correct) French pronunciation, "kloh-PAH~n," which ends in a French nasal vowel. Since so many Pokémon have trouble with said nasal vowel, he'll usually accept "kloh-PAH (without the nasality)," but also tell them exactly how the nasal vowel is ''supposed'' to be pronounced [[note]] What follows is an APPROXIMATION -- there is no sound like this in English. If you know French or are French and are offended in any way by this explanation, we apologize in advance [[/note]]:

* In the first ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' movie, one of the aliens mispronounces Earth as "Ee-Arth."
* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'':

* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the Duke of Weselton insists it is pronounced "Wessel-ton" when everyone pronounces is "Weasel-town". Later inverted in ''Disney/{{Zootopia}}'', which features a character named Duke Weaselton who corrects others who pronounce it "Wessel-ton". Bonus points for the fact that both characters are voiced by Creator/AlanTudyk.

An interesting fact: Though "Trope" isn't pronounced that way, even in French, the city Saint Tropez actually is pronounced like that.

* In the Manga/MarvelMangaverse, Benjamin Grimm's first name is pronounced as it is in Hebrew: "Ben-ya-MEEN". Johnatha goes out of her way to emphasize the unusual (to English speakers) pronunciation every time she talks about him, as an insult.

** If anything, it's his last name that's strange, being pronounced with a long O as in "cope" rather than a short O as in "cop" as it would seem.

* Music/{{Rihanna}} pronounces her own name "Ree-AN-na". Almost everyone else says "Ree-AH-na".
* Music/DepecheMode at the very first glance seems like it would be pronounced "Deh-peh-chee Mode", for the majority of people, but it is actually pronounced "Deh-pesh Mode".

** That might be the case in the UK, but "Air-un" is still the standard pronunciation of the name in Copland's homeland of the US. Star [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]] quarterback Aaron Rodgers, rising [[UsefulNotes/CurrentPeopleToKnowInMLB New York Yankees]] star Aaron Judge, and for a last-name example, [[UsefulNotes/HistoricalPeopleToKnowInMLB Baseball Hall of Famer]] Hank Aaron? All "Air-un".