Admittedly it's not the most common name, but common enough and not unusual enough to be mispronounced a lot (I would have thought anyway, but that might just be me)
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ahahah my name has like 934402 different pronunciations depending on the country im in.
but in portugal we pronounce it pah-uh-la ( aka accent on both pa and u) lol, when i lived in the uk they kept spelling it wrong lol
Mispronunciation towards my last name is so common! All my teachers butcher my last name constantly but I don't mind it's something you get used to haha
Depends on the situation.
Usually at uni I get called Matthew in the first week of class, so I usually just say that its Matt (although they don't say it wrong, that's my preference).
When people can't pronounce my name correct I know they are trying to hard. They will add letters that don't exist which I will usually correct. As for my last name. I will say it in Spanish, but people just are very confused so I "english-wash" to make it sound simple.