Terry;

People have a problem pronouncing my last name. It seems easy enough but would you believe that only three people (outside of our family and people with the same name) have pronounced Whiteley correctly when I am being addressed?

It comes out Whit-a-lee, Whit-lee and other variations. I like the history of my last name. It is an old English name indicating someone who came from the White Forest, an area that was in the NE corner of England and the SE corner of Scotland.

Ley is old English for forest
Leigh is Middle English for forest
Forest is Modern English for guess what? :)

How hard is it to pronounce White-lee? Well, many have failed the test!

By the way I have no problem with your last name. :)

Tom