Micky Dolenz's Surname

[joko]

Growing up, everyone i knew pronounced it - Doe LENZ, - to rhyme with - So Pens - with emphasis on - Lenz.

but actually it's pronounced - DOE l'nz - to rhyme with - Stolens or Stow L'nz - emphasis on - DO.

even though i know how its really pronounced i still think of it as i did growing up.

I've no idea where we got that pronunciation from - we all watched the shows & they say it numerous times.

unless its a english thing? is that just the way english people say it?

so how have you always pronounced Dolenz?

So pens or Stolenz ?

thanks :D

[andy-hughes]

I always pronounced it the same as you.

Too late to change now.

[Ringlet]

I always pounced it with the emphasis on the first syllable. But that's possibly because I'm Irish.

[Ringlet]

*pronounced

[Spicerack]

Years since I heard anyone Tork about him.
Is he still with us?

[Philoctetes]

I seem to recall hearing his name at the start of "Elephant Boy", so have always though of him as "Dolens"

[naomi24]

He's 77. The only one still alive.

[Spicerack]

^Bit sad. Reminder of my own mortality.

[ToraToraTora]

I always thought it was dole ents.

[Ken4155]

I always pronounced it Doll enz?

I thought he was already in Davy Jones's locker.

[Vagus]

Emphasis on the DOE, opposite to you Joko.

[elliemay1]

same as Vagus

[Peter Pedant]

Only some words
Edith Cavell - used to say - cavell rhymes with travel
so clearly they were getting it wrong then

Geoffrey Flavell - sort of Sqad used to have to look up to him (in the Good Old Days) - was not flayvell, but fluh-vell

[Peter Pedant]

bit early for normal names with crazy spellings

eriq LaSalle - on ER also McKay Feiffer - oops Mekhi Phifer

[Old_Geezer]

luns or lens, pfft, Had the family wanted it pronounce luns they'd have spelt it with a u not an e.

Not that, that always helps. I have a surname that by english language rules should be easy to pronounce correctly at first glance, but 99.9% of folk seem to prefer not to follow those rules and opt to mispronounce it. Folk are weird.

[Ken4155]

^
Reminds me of when Philomena Lynott's (Phil's mother) name was mispronounced by an interviewer. "It's Lynott, not Linnet. We're not little birds."

[Barsel]

He should have written a song about it like Minelli.
It's Liza with a "Z" not Lisa with an "S" cause Lisa with an "S" goes snoz Its Z instead of S, Li instead of Lee it's simple as could be see Liza!

[Peter Pedant]

O god Geezer
your surname isnt Bumley, and the clerks kept on saying it must be
Bottomley !
ter dddah - I only write this to enrage the mods

[Peter Pedant]

or snodgrit
and they say - "snort it" - and you say " ay am not selling cocaine or any other product"
and they quip - well get to the back of the q then !

[Peter Pedant]

But it isnt only names !

But the man said that Freeman was Samuel L. Jackson, who was also recently mistaken for Laurence Fishburne by an L.A. news anchor.

all three were less than amused

[Spicerack]

By Jove, I knew you were Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh, OG.