Do you correct people who mispronounce Bono?

[trevster2k]

People always say Bow no , Bon o, what's the difference?

To which I always respond, no difference as I mispronounce their name. They get so flustered.

 

[Mullen4Prez]

I find it annoying when people say BO, then NO.

 

[diamond]

yes.

 

[beau2ifulday]

Yes. I'd correct someone in the same way i'd correct them if they pronounced anything wrong. I'm one of those kind of people.

 

[BAW]

It depends.

Some people mispronounce it on purpose because they dislike Bono and want to get a rise out of any U2 fans that might be present. I hate giving them their wish so I let it go and watch their faces kind of drop when they don't get a reaction.

If its someone who truly doesn't know, I'll nicely tell them the proper way to say it.

 

[Yahweh]

It does annoy me and I think its mostly due to uneducated music fans...even Tina Turner mispronouced it.

 

[madonna's child]

yes, I correct them

 

[-macphisto-]

they always call him Boner to piss me off

 

[Macfistowannabe]

I don't... but then wish I did afterwards.

 

[ADecentMelody]

yes, all the freaking time.

 

[Bono's Doll]

Yes, esp. my husband who loves to do it to get a rise out of me. (it's getting old though.) A guy I work with says oh that guy married to Cher (same scenario as above--he thinks it bothers me.)

 

[LMP]

I'm a corrector myself

I don't want them to confuse him w/ Sonny Bono

 

[sallycinnamon78]

Yes. I'd correct someone in the same way i'd correct them if they pronounced anything wrong. I'm one of those kind of people.

Me too. I'm dreadful like that - I'll correct people's spelling in posts and allsorts. I am trying very hard to give it up.

I agree that some people just say Bow-no to wind his fans up, so I just ignore them. Recently someone called him
Nobo. I am sorry to say that I giggled - it was nasty and unnecessary of them to call him that, and of couse I didn't approve, but it was kinda funny.

 

[faithingrace]

Just did it a few days ago, not to be mean or anything, I just didn't want that person sounding like and eijit!

 

[miss becky]

Yes. It drives me crazy when people mispronounce his name.

 

[Lancemc]

I correct them. I hate the Bow-no pronunciation.

 

[Shaliz]

Every chance I get.

 

[tiny dancer]

All the time.

 

[susanp6]

yep

 

[dandy]

all the freakin' time.

 

[shart1780]

Sometimes my friend calls him boner.

 

[onetreehill33]

grrrrr

my son does this all the time, bow/no or bone/o I correct him then he goes bone/o bone/o bone/o ...... So now I have the picture of 'Bono in the bathtub' as screen saver and the last time he said bone/O I go yeah ur right and pointed at my computer screen!

 

[mysticchild]

I have had people call him so many different ways and it drives me nuts. The man is one of the most well know people in the world. People must really be out of touch if they don't know it. Or maybe very jealous.

 

[Sicy]

Yes

 

[u2valleygirl]

Yes. I try to be nice about it so that they don't embarrassed.

 

[sue4u2]

Just did that tonight when my sis called him Bo-no. She thought it would be good for U2 to appear at the grammys. But she also calls google search, goggle. I don't know her .

 

[caragriff]

oh my God, you mean i've been pronouncing it wrong all these years??

just kidding....

 

[trevster2k]

This should be on the back of interference shirts.

It's Bon-O, not Bo-no, dumbass!

 

[Macfistowannabe]

to trev's post.

 

[indra]

Nope. Because it doesn't bother me.

Of course, I would much prefer if he simply went by Paul Hewson (and The Edge by Dave Evans also). Kinda hard to fuck up the pronunciation of Paul and Dave. The "cool" nicknames kind of thing just seems so junior high to me (or is that middle school now?). [end of rant]