Alternatives for Grainne?

OU812

There’s this woman at work who’s really quite annoying.

She’s been there about 6-8 weeks so I’ve had a little interaction with her but today she did something which landed me in it which was not my fault but it was her word against mine.

She’s an indirect superior, so I don’t want to do anything which is likely to bite me in the ass, but I would like to annoy her.

I want to start calling her by the wrong name (Ron Swanson approach), as I know that’ll really annoy her - she makes a point of going by a full Irish name even though the English version is her real name, so what can I “confuse” Grainne with?

Yer Da sells Avon

Gráinne means 'Grace', doesn't it?

Accuse her of behaving disgráinnefully.

Ipso

Isn't Grainne used as translation of Grace? Or just piss her of and use the fonetic pronunciation.

Boscoirl

Someone’s got the hots for his boss

Sardonicat

Pronounce Grainne as an English person would; Grainey/Granya

Or call her Aine or Una all the time.

Powerhouse

OU812 wrote: »

I want to start calling her by the wrong name (Ron Swanson approach), as I know that’ll really annoy her - she makes a point of going by a full Irish name even though the English version is her real name, so what can I “confuse” Grainne with?

How do you work out that the English version is her real name? Have you seen some kind of court order which states this? Surely what she calls herself is her real name. You run the risk of coming across as a notice-seeking bell-end if you call her by a different name to everyone else.

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Powerhouse wrote: »

How do you work out that the English version is her real name? Have you seen some kind of court order which states this? Surely what she calls herself is her real name. You run the risk of coming across as a notice-seeking bell-end if you call her by a different name to everyone else.

Who gives a fcuk? What a pretentious post, and the use of "surely" is just classical.

Call her Gregory and then piss in her tea.

pjohnson

George

Signore Fancy Pants

Judt keep calling her "Bainne".

Fr_Dougal

Ignore her, don’t waste your energy.

indioblack

Powerhouse wrote: »

Surely what she calls herself is her real name.

Don't call me Shirley.

salmocab

Mispronounce it, Grah-nya then when she corrects you claim you can’t hear any difference

wexie

OU812 wrote: »

so what can I “confuse” Grainne with?

groany

OU812

Powerhouse wrote: »

How do you work out that the English version is her real name? Have you seen some kind of court order which states this? Surely what she calls herself is her real name. You run the risk of coming across as a notice-seeking bell-end if you call her by a different name to everyone else.

I’ve seen her driving licence

Spanish Eyes

Yawnia.

screamer

Call her gobnait.... What a beautiful Irish name. Pronounced gub net

Cee-Jay-Cee

Just over pronounce it...Groin-Yah wit particular emphasis on the GROIN part or Graw-hoin-ya and pronounce it as three separate syllables.

Donald Trump

Sardonicat wrote: »

Pronounce Grainne as an English person would; Grainey/Granya

Or call her Aine or Una all the time.

Or Geebag.


Most Grainnes have been called it plenty of times in the past


Usually by their parents

milltown

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clintondaly

Dave.

rovertom

Continually just call her Aine.

ToddyDoody

Go with GrEnya and say that's how its pronounced in your locality.

ToddyDoody

Go with GrEnya and say that's how its pronounced in your locality.

ToddyDoody

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Go with GrEnya and say that's how its pronounced in your locality.

I dont know if this would be annoying enough tho.

Archeron

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I dont know if this would be annoying enough tho.

It would if you punctuate it every time with a fart.

enfant terrible

salmocab wrote: »

Mispronounce it, Grah-nya then when she corrects you claim you can’t hear any difference

Ya do it exactly like Joey

Richard Hillman

Bertha. Nobody wants to be called Bertha

OU812

Called her Aine several times today in conversations, she corrected me twice & twice I told her I had called her Grainne.

Was very selective about it and never over emphasised it.

Could see her visibly annoyed & doubting herself.

Gonna keep this up.

Sardonicat

Throw in the odd Granya and when she corrects you ask "Is that not what I said?"

You evil gasslighting genius.

“Oh Grace just hold me in your arms and let this moment linger
They'll take me out at dawn and I will die
With all my love I place this wedding ring upon your finger
There won't be time to share our love for we must say goodbye”

salmocab

OU812 wrote: »

Called her Aine several times today in conversations, she corrected me twice & twice I told her I had called her Grainne.

Was very selective about it and never over emphasised it.

Could see her visibly annoyed & doubting herself.

Gonna keep this up.

I’d like to applaud you for this bit of childish nonsense.

Salthillprom

Let’s hope Gráinne isn’t reading this thread

Edgware

Everytime she's away from her desk ring her extension and hang up just as she reaches the desk

Sardonicat

Salthillprom wrote: »

Let’s hope Gráinne isn’t reading this thread

Do you mean Granya?

Purple Mountain

salmocab wrote: »

I’d like to applaud you for this bit of childish nonsense.

Or covert bullying.

wakka12

Grain-ya like the cereal, maybe
Sounds more like a way somebody might genuinely pronounce it , some of the suggestions would definitely come off as you obviously deliberately mispronouncing her name to belittle her which would make you look immature to other colleagues

namloc1980

Edgware wrote: »

Everytime she's away from her desk ring her extension and hang up just as she reaches the desk

Those Cisco office phones with caller id really brought an end to that in our place.

bilbot79

Granny

namloc1980

I bet Grainne is posting a thread somewhere about some weirdo at work who keeps calling her the wrong name and trying to gaslight her.